Physics Project - EGG DROP (CAN I USE BALLOONS?)

[Rip the Jacker]

PURPOSE :
[*] to study the rate of falling object
[*]to build a device to protect a falling egg
[*]to learn about impulse and momentum in stopping the egg

MATERIALS:
[*]any device (substance) that you can find around your home
[*]size/texture large/soft enough to keep a raw egg from breaking
[*]outer covering should incrase air frictiona nd reduce terminal velocity as it falls


QUESTION: Am I allowed to use BALLOONS for this?

 

[elektrolokomotive]

Mini anti-gravity chamber.

Then you can just suspend the egg right in the middle. No impact shock!

Good luck with that. I imagine you'd win the contest and a Nobel prize if you could get it tp work.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

repost

 

[Maximus96]

i did that in high school many years ago. used a shoe box and two paper towel cardboard tubes. i made a cut out in the center of the tubes so i can fit one tube over the other like a cross. i put the egg in the middle where the two cut-outs crossed and stuffed paper towel in the tubes. then i glued the tubes inside a shoe box. the egg was fine after the fall. i used stuff around the house and didn't have to buy anything

 

[blackdogdeek]

or instead of anti-gravity forces, use rubber bands stretched from the joints of the container to suspend the egg in the holding device.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

Whoa. Didn't notice the Egg Drop was a very popular project.

Sorry for the repost

 

[ATLien247]

Only 5-8 feet? When I was in junior high, we had to do it from the roof of our school!

Mine had a parachute made from a plastic grocery bag. The egg compartment was made from a frame of drinking straws, from which the egg pouch was suspended using elastic bands. The pouch itself was made out of a balloon... basically putting the egg inside a baloon with the nozzle (or whatever its called) removed.

It would have worked, too, if I hadn't left so much slack in the rubber bands. I figured the parachute would slow it down enough.

 

[FrustratedUser]

Use lots of Zero-gravity devices.

 

[WannaFly]

Gravity gun!

 

[jdub1107]

We dropped it from the roof of our gym. I just used thick foam and made it into a shape of a cylinder and put more foam at both openings and secured the egg in between. Then I added small rocks on one end of the cylinder to absorb the shock and to make sure it landed on the correct side. Seemed easy enough, didn't get much credit for creativity though.

 

[Wallydraigle]

I had to do that in sixth grade. Our drop was about 20 feet or so, and the device had to be designed in such a way that the egg could still be touched in two places. I don't remember what I did. I do remember that some kind taped an egg into an Air Jordan and it didn't crack.

 

[MX2]

Let it soak in vinegar for 2 weeks. It should bounce when it hits

 

[SoyBoy004]

Originally posted by: MX2times
Let it soak in vinegar for 2 weeks. It should bounce when it hits

lol nice!


we had to drop ours off our gym roof (40 feet) we also had to make a device that would preserve 5 eggs, not just one. 20% for every egg. all 5 of ours survived using a box, panty hose to suspend the eggs, tape, and grass clippings, marshmallows, and a few other soft items.

very easy/fun project.

 

[Argo]

We had to do that for a colelge course. Except the egg was release from a hight of 30 feet and of all the egs that survived, the team that used the least amount of materials (dollar wise) won.

 

[vshah]

5-8 feet is easy stick it at the center 3 axis and stuff stuff in the tubes coming off all six ends.

now...5 stories was tough

 

[ggavinmoss]

Some guy in my class put his in a box full of yogurt (he was being a jackass and the teacher didn't know). When they dropped it (from about 30-40 feet) the yogurt went everywhere.

-geoff

 

[Injury]

Originally posted by: ggavinmoss
Some guy in my class put his in a box full of yogurt (he was being a jackass and the teacher didn't know). When they dropped it (from about 30-40 feet) the yogurt went everywhere.

-geoff

.... and the egg?

 

[Kyteland]

I made one in 6th grade out of straws, popsicle sticks, and rubber bands. I took 10 straws and 2 rubber bands and bound the two ends of the straw bundle. I then worked the egg in to the middle of the straw bundle. I then put a ring of popsicle sticks arount the egg secured by another rubber band. The whole thing was missle shaped.

You dropped the egg like a missle, the lower tip being the unsecured ends of the poipsicle sticks and one end of the straw bundle. When it hit the ground the egg was forced in to the tip of the straws. When the egg moved it was enough of the rubber band around the popsicle sticks to contract, spreading them out and keeping it from falling over. It worked fairly well, but when it failed it was catastrophic!

 

[Hammer]

wrap it in bubble wrap all the way around, until its a big ball. works every time.

 

[oog]

popcorn

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Originally posted by: WannaFly
Gravity gun!

 

[dquan97]

when we did it in HS, the egg can't be attached to anything when it's dropped. We had to design a box that can catch it without breaking. My partner and I put hair gel and foam, and that didnt work. What did work was cement powder.

 

[zerocool1]

in grade school, I used sand and a tropicana container in high school I used paper and paperclips and rubber bands and a piece of tape
both worked

 

[jjones]

Originally posted by: ATLien247
Only 5-8 feet? When I was in junior high, we had to do it from the roof of our school!

Only from the roof of your school?

When I was in school, which I had to go to barefoot, in the snow, uphill, we had to drop it from an airplane at 30,000 feet.

 

[aolj]

I did this back in college as well. We used a lot of drinking straws. We built a structure made of the drinking straws and stuck the egg in the middle. It was fun. The egg did not crack or break.