Recent content by Sirloin

Oh, yeah. Thanks!

I'm wondering if there's a term for the property of spheres that makes gravity pull equally on all aspects of the sphere's mass. The wording for what I'm asking is tricky, so I'll give an example of a shape that wouldn't have this property, a long prism. If you drop a long prism on an angle...

I have a ridiculous amount of bouncy balls of perfect size ready to go, I don't think there's anything I can to do increase their mass, but I could add mass to the interior of the device.

The only energy I want to dissipate is the egg's energy, which is independant of the shell, no? And my diagram is very imperfect, imagine a perfect circle. The purpose of a sphere of superballs is to maximize the force of gravity on the entire structure as a whole, rather than on a component of...

This is a sort of cross section of what I'm thinking. Imagine that the bouncy balls continue into the page to form a hemisphere (not a full sphere, because it's a cross section).

I'm thinking the suspending springs should do a good job of dissipating the acceleration of the egg. What do you mean by suspended with radial springs? The more clear bounces, the better.

Like these. Glued together side by side to form one big spherical shell.

I mean solid rubber balls, I don't understand what you mean by popping them...

Well this is just the outside. Inside, I plan to incorporate a spring suspended, smaller container lined with cushionny material in which the egg will be placed. I just need to know if the hollow bouncy ball sphere will efficiently bounce.

I'm tasked with creating an egg protector that bounces. I'm thinking of gluing bouncy balls together side-by-side around a template sphere. The glue being used should be very strong, it's a super glue that works on rubber. Would this be able to bounce effectively? Will I need to add mass...