Monday I got a project for Physics where I have to drop an egg 2 stories and not have it break. We have to make a device that can survive the impact and keep the egg in 1 piece. But there's a catch, there can't be any parachute or device that can decelerate the egg, it must survive the impact. And there's a size limit too, 10 cm x 10 cm x 10 cm......pretty much the size of a box a softball comes in. I was wondering if anyone has any ideas of what I could do, I was thinking maybe getting a 2 sandwich baggy full of packing peanuts and another one with water, and put the egg in the water and sandwich it in between the 2 packing peanut bags. I'm not really into making these kind of projects, so I need tons of help
I did this in seventh grade and I used that foam stuff that those special mattresses are made from. Works good.
I did it this year and this is what helped me survive my egg: Surround it around withn crumbled paper. DON'T SHRED IT, just take a piece of paper, crumble it so it protects the eggs from that side and keep doing it until you're satisfied. It's like a pillow to the egg, it's soft and won't have to experience the impact. Then on the outside, have a small piece of wood or whatever on every side, so the actual box doesn't experience the impact either. Like, imagine having a bouncing ball on your stomach and your back and if you fell sideways off a roof, the ball would experience the impact and not you, so you would be safe. Same case for the box. Good luck.
<div class="quote_poster">Will637 Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">I did it this year and this is what helped me survive my egg: Surround it around withn crumbled paper. DON'T SHRED IT, just take a piece of paper, crumble it so it protects the eggs from that side and keep doing it until you're satisfied. It's like a pillow to the egg, it's soft and won't have to experience the impact. Then on the outside, have a small piece of wood or whatever on every side, so the actual box doesn't experience the impact either. Like, imagine having a bouncing ball on your stomach and your back and if you fell sideways off a roof, the ball would experience the impact and not you, so you would be safe. Same case for the box. Good luck.</div> This sounds a bit tough, one of my friends told me about putting the egg in a balloon and then put it in another balloon with water in it, don't think it'll work though
The object of this assignment is for you to learn about trial and error. There's a lot of suggestions that should work, but use some creativity and have fun with it. Sometimes you need to think outside the box. If you boil the egg first, it makes it harder to break.
I did this (kind of) in Physics in high school. We were given something like 20 straws and had to make a contraption out of it that would prevent the egg from breaking. So...maybe you could look into those. Just a suggestion.
An egg doesn't break when the pressure is equal all around it. Try it yourselves: take an egg in your hand and squeze as hard as you can, just make sure you don't put more pressure on one point than the others.
<div class="quote_poster">shapecity Wrote</div><div class="quote_post">Sometimes you need to think outside the box. If you boil the egg first, it makes it harder to break.</div> We get the egg before we drop it, so this wouldn't work.
