Egg drop Definition and 130 Threads

TL;DR Summary: egg drop report i have an egg drop report, and my contraption is based off of shock absorbant materials (cardboard, styrofoam, and sponges). idk how to draw a free body diagram about this, or the physics behind shock absorbency. can someone help me please? (grade7)

Hey guys! So I will be doing the classic egg drop competition at school and was wondering if I could get some help. The materials I have is : 3 sheets of newspaper 5 popsicle sticks 10 wooden skewers 1m of masking tape hot glue I have to drop an egg multiple times (not sure the heights yet...

Hello, I'm in 8th grade (In sweden, I think its 7th grade in US) And I'm supposed to stop an Egg from smashing the ground, and we are dropping it about 4 meters above the ground. Do I need to calculate anything in order to figure out how to stop it from breaking/smashing. And If I do how do I...

For my physics assignment we have to design and test a way to allow an egg to fall from a three storey building and not crack. The only requirments are the egg must be visible in atleast one place and the smallest design wins. I tried making a crumple area and then protecting the egg with...

Our class is making an egg drop design but the rule is we can't use any tape or glue and we can only use these materials Balloon, toothpick, string, paperclip, straw, cotton ball, pipe cleaner, rubber band, paper, cup, newspaper, and plastic sheet

Homework Statement I have an egg drop project in my high school physics class, dropping 2 eggs in one device from 6 meters up. There are some certain guidelines. I was just looking for some tips or ideas of what I should do. So here are the guidelines: - Device has to hold 2 eggs. - It must...

All the videos I've looked at uses straws, but doesn't wood absorb the impact better? Is there a way to do a hybrid wood/straw setup for maximum absorption? Also, how is my idea? I am going to make a bedding from yarn and make it fairly tight. Then I'm going to connect to 4 popsicle sticks...

Hi, I have a egg drop competition coming up, and I am only able to use: Duct tape Hot Glue Egg 50 Wooden Craft Sticks I have no idea where to begin. The egg will be dropped from 3 meters. Any ideas?

Homework Statement For my egg drop project, the requirements are different than anything I have seen on other forums. Basically the only rule is that it can't be bigger than 3x3x3 inches. We can use any materials except anything peanut related (allergies) and will be dropping our containers...

Objective: Design/construct container to safely land a raw egg when dropped onto pavement from top of bleachers. Materials: Standard Toothpicks, Standard Straight Drinking Straws, Standard Sewing Thread, Cardboard, Masking Tape Requirements: Egg cannot crack. Container mass < 30 grams without...

Homework Statement [/B] Our teacher has given us the weekend to go and work on the Egg Drop project. He's restricted us to 20g total mass and 6cm * 6cm * 30cm in size. Food, foam, bubble wrap is prohibited. Parachutes can be added but can not make it exceed 12cm * 12 cm * 30cm. So that's what...

Hello I'm relatively new to teaching physics and was wondering if you anyone had advices as to the parameters to put on this challenge. How high should I drop their containers from? 2nd or 3rd story? When I was in school, I think we could only use glue and toothpicks, but I don't remember...

Homework Statement I am doing an egg drop project write up, and one of the components is to draw a general egg drop device diagram, and to write down the general forces which would act upon the egg drop device, both inside it, and outside it. Any suggestions? Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a...

Homework Statement I need help with egg drop ideas! For this project, I have to create something that will catch an egg (about 62.5 g) dropped from a height of 9.91 meters so that it will not break or crack. I also have to discuss forces, impulses, momentum, time and velocity changes of the...

Homework Statement I have to build a egg drop project out of only toothpicks and glue. I can have a plastic bag to hold the egg (and avoid cleaning up a mess). It has to weigh 40 grams or less. The egg must be dropped from a height of three meters. I attempted to build it. I had a cube to hold...

Okay. I have to do the egg drop project tomorrow and I need help with ideas for designs. Available materials: 2 sheets of printer paper 1 meter of tape I have to build something that can withstand about a 5 meter drop. Additional materials can be 'purchased' with grade points, but only more...

Homework Statement For my 8th grade honors science class we are currently doing astronomy. We got assigned a project where we have to create a landing module like the module that people land back on Earth in. The catch is that it has to be able to fit in a 10cm x10cm x10cm box and be able to...

Hello, I'm looking for any ideas that you geniuses may have! We have to design a device that will catch a (hardboiled) egg from 7 meters high. It can be made from any material/objects but must be under 5 cm tall (the sides can be as wide as wanted) and must be self-supporting. The device will...

Homework Statement Two identical eggs of mass 0.1 kg are dropped from rest at height h. One is dropped on Earth and the other on the surface of the moon. Egg dropped on Earth experiences a force due to air resistance (F=-kv) where v is velocity of egg and k is constant of proportinality equal...

I am in an introductory physics class and we have been working with Gravitational Potential Energy, Elastic Potential Energy, Kinetic Energy and the Law of Conservation of Energy in relation to bungee cords. Recently, we delved into the topic of efficiency and with it I came upon the following...

Homework Statement An egg of mass 0.10 kg is dropped from rest at a height h. It is known that the egg dropped experiences a force due to air resistance of the form F = -kv, where v is the velocity of the egg and k is a constant of proportionality equal to 0.01781 N*s/m. What is the terminal...

1. My assignment is to create an egg catcher to successfully catch an egg dropped from a height of a meter, the only materials I can use is: 1 Piece of paper 1 piece of aluminum foil 2 straws 20cm of tape What I was planning to do was create a cylinder with the paper and using the...

-An Egg Drop began at rest and fell through approximately 5-m. Assume that its momentum was changed in a time of 0.25-s. If your apparatus bounced when hitting the ground, would this require a smaller force than in #4, a larger force than in #4, or the same force as in #4? Explain…. -Note...

1. A 2 kilogram egg drop apparatus began at rest and fell through approximately 5-m. Assume that it’s momentum was changed to zero in a time of 0.25-s. --What force stopped your apparatus? ---Mass=2kg ---Distance=-5m ---Time=.25-s 2.-Force(Time)=Mass(Velocity) 3.Velocity final for the...

Homework Statement A moderate force will break an egg. However, an egg dropped on the road or sidewalk usually breaks, while one dropped on the grass usually does not break. This difference is because for the egg dropped on the grass: A. the change in momentum is greater B. the change in...

Homework Statement (A) An egg (57g) is dropped from a balcony 4m high,calculate the speed with which the egg, when dropped from the first floor balcony will hit the ground. ( use Newtons laws). ( note the time taken for the egg to hit the ground is 0.1s) (B) What force from the ground will be...

Homework Statement This was a highly simplistic lab we did, and that I have been taking further for my personal enjoyment (I always enjoy deriving things). The lab was if you have a spring hanging from a hook with a spring constant k, place an object of mass m on the spring so it just...

Homework Statement drop an egg ~10m without it breakingHomework Equations 1/2mv2 and mgh :) The Attempt at a Solution i was thinking would the egg break if i suspended the egg in a container of liquid of the same density as the eggshell. I've been thinking about this conceptually with...

Homework Statement An egg is dropped from a third-floor window and lands on a foam-rubber pad without breaking. If a 56.0g egg falls 12.0m from rest and the 5.00cm thick foam pad stops it in 6.25ms, by how much is the pad compressed? Assume constant upward acceleration as the egg compresses...

Homework Statement My problem is that I am given a bunch of labelled curves on a velocity-time graph that I have to match up with 2 given situations. The first situation is an egg being dropped from a bridge with no initial velocity. The second situation is an egg being thrown downward off of...

One night, a toddler is dropping eggs from a windowof a building which is 20 feet above ground. A neighbor, hearing the commotion, looks through her window which is 15 feet from the toddler's window, on the same wall of the building, and at the same height. She shines a flashlight from her...

Homework Statement Find how long of a cord needed to drop an egg from 14m to come within 5cm of the ground We have determined a force deflection ratio for the cord given a .5m sample. Homework Equations what is x supposed to be here. Is it a number as I have or is it the mass or the...

Homework Statement i'm sure everyone has seen this: Solve the following ancient Indian problem: If eggs are removed from a basket 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6 at a time, there remain, respectively, 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5 eggs. But if the eggs are removed 7 at a time, no eggs remain. What is the least...

Egg Launch and Recover--I need NASA level help! Homework Statement Another variation on the classic Egg Launch and Egg Drop Science projects, only this 9th grade science teacher believes in upping the ante. Goals are to launch a raw egg, achieving at least 30 feet of vertical height, using...

For an egg drop project, I have to calculate the time interval for which the force won't exceed 3 Newtons. The egg is dropped from a height of 12.19 meters, and the vehicle that carries it weights .454 kg. Calculating the force, I get .454kg*9.8 m/s^2m which equates to 4.44 Newtons. Is the 4.44...

Homework Statement Two eggs, both housed in equivalent protective chambers, are pushed off a desk to the ground. One is pushed with greater force and travels further, while the other is pushed with less force and does not travel as far horizontally. Which egg is more likely to break...

a raw egg is dropped on concrete from a height of 4 metres it breaks, but if it is dropped on a thin sponge it does not break. Why does this happens even though they experience the same impluse?

I am given the task to make an egg holder for a 20 foot drop. I have been looking at designs all night and I have come across a website that tells me about the best results from their school, of all time. There is one particular design that the teacher praises where they used a tylenol box, JUST...

Homework Statement An egg is dropped from a third-floor win- dow and lands on a foam-rubber pad without breaking. The acceleration of gravity is 9.81 m/s2 . If a 56.3 g egg falls 11.9 m from rest and the 7.29 cm thick foam pad stops it in 6.32 ms, by how much is the pad compressed...

An egg of mass 5.8*10^-2 is dropped from a height of 1.5m onto a floor. Assuming air resistance is negligable, calculate for the egg: a) loss of potential energy. b) the kinetic enrgy just before impact. c) the speed just before impact d) the momentum just before impact. So far i have...

The purpose the lab is to get a 1kg mass on a long spring (approx 3meters) to touch, without cracking, the top of an egg. To do this, we need to solve for the height needed to drop weight from. I'm not sure how to solve the problem and I have been using the following formulas: F=kx...

Hi, I am working on an Egg Drop Contraption as a Physical Science project. I need some help on a 1 page report I need to make. First, let me explain how my project will work so you can know how to answer my questions. I will have a box a bit bigger than the egg itself. The walls, floor, and...

Hello, My physics class is doing the classic egg drop experiment, but with a different twist. We are asked to find the length of the bungee cord needed given a mass and a height to drop it from. The success of the lab is determined by how close we can get to the ground without touching. We...

Homework Statement I have to make an egg drop device. I was fishing for ideas. It needs to be the fastest time and survive the fall. If I win I get 4 points E.C.. Homework Equations Impulse = Ft Position function for falling object s(t) = -16t^2 +Vo + So s'(t) = -32t F = ma p =...

The basic idea is to package an egg so that it will not break when I drop it off a roof (assume 10m tall). The packaging should be as small and lightweight as possible. I know using a fluid will be rather heavy, but I'm still curious about his. How would I determine the optimal fluid to use? I...

The project requires me to build an Egg-Drop Vehicle that is ranked based on volume*mass (So ligher/smaller is better). And, of course, the egg can't break when dropped from 20 meters. critique my design please: http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/8872/eggdrop2.jpg Any suggestions or...

In my Honors Physics class we were assigned to construct a egg drop contraption solely out of tape, popsicle sticks, and paper. The first time I constructed it I made a paper parachute and attached a paper cone to the parachute (to hold the egg). Unfortunately, the egg broke upon impact. Any...

Hi, we are doing an egg drop contest in my Physics class and I was hoping to get some ideas for the best capsule possible. Here are the rules: - No pre constructed containers (cans, boxes, bottles, glass, uncut plastic bags, egg containers etc) -capsule dimensions must not exceed 6 inches in...

Impulse Momentum Theorem + Egg Drop?? I have to explain how the impulse momentum theorem relates to my egg drop. My egg was padded with a styrofoam cup and tissues and a plastic bag parachute. Honestly, I don't understand the impulse momentum theorem and I am in need of help! I have fall times...

Homework Statement i need to make sample calculations of momentum using the mass of a standard egg (.05kg) dropped from 1 2 and 3 meter heights. but i have no clue how to do this