Recently, we had to create something that kept an egg completely safe and unharmed when it was dropped off about three and a half stories. Despite previous years' classes having a safe rate of about 50%, my class had a larger percentage safe. In fact, I believe only one or two groups had cracked eggs!
Anyway, for mine and Austin's project, we stuffed the inside of a box with various soft, cushion-y materials. The bottom of the box was lined with short, rectangular foam. On top of that, we place cylindric foam, staggering it so that it would be held in place by all the other foam cylinders. In the middle cylinder, we dug out a hold for the egg to rest in during the drop. Lastly, on top of the egg, we placed a bag of packing peanuts.
There were a lot of interesting designs, I liked the arial screw-like design by Joe and Jason. Anyway, we were really happy our egg survived. I took a really terrible video of it because I was unprepared when Austin dropped it. My finger tries to steal the show...
Hey I know you! Anyways, I love that ours survived. However, not sure how we managed to keep our egg alive. But, we did it and I am proud. However, I think we could have changed our materials. Maybe some of the temperpedic material instead of the foam.
ReplyDeleteHo nah, I suppose that you had a successful egg drop. I'm sorry i was not there to help you guys out.
ReplyDeletehi kitty! :D So though you already told me, its good that your guy's egg survived the drop. Even more that you knew your physics well enough to make sure it all worked out. Also good job! :D
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