Will you help me with a physics egg drop with many restrictions?
Jul 1
Need a light mass with dimensions no bigger than 10X10X10.
Forbidden materials include: Cotton or polyester balls, Kleenex, tiolet paper, notebook paper, Styrofoam or other packing materials, foam poster board, florist’s foam, sponges, foam, insulation, saran wrap, balloons, latex gloves, floaties, parachutes, rubber balls, tennis balls, propellers, plates, toilet paper rolls, paper towel rolls, and no motorized devices.
10x 10x 10 box and pack with LEAVES with egg in the middle, my Boy Scouts did this from 30 feet twice withour breaking the egg……….#######
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that’s hard
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Make Jello in a 10-inch (cm?) jar. Use more gelatin than usual. experiment with amt of jello that would make the best cushion.
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i had to do a physics project like that too in high school. what i did was fill a small tupperware with rice and lay the egg inside horizontally, then covered it with the tupperware lid. as long as you fill the tupperware as much as you can with the rice, i think youll be in good shape. try it out first though!!!
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10x 10x 10 box and pack with LEAVES with egg in the middle, my Boy Scouts did this from 30 feet twice withour breaking the egg……….#######
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Haha, wow, that project is RIDICULOUS. I won a competition in this once, but I used florist foam.
This may sound weird, but try to find small tires, two of them, and put them together so they form a sphere in shape (man, I wish I could draw a picture!). Do it so that they will be like a ball and will bounce when hitting the ground, regardless of the angle that hits. Take a small box, fill the box with polyester cloth (since cotton is forbidden!) and snugly fit the egg(s) inside. Close the box and seal it tightly. Take dowel rods and fix them into the tires, so that there is enough space in the middle for the box. Make sure they are firmly attached to the tires so they won’t move or break when they hit the ground! Then, once the box is finished, put it in the middle of the dowel rods and attach it strongly as well, so it won’t fall out.
I am NOT guaranteeing it will work. But, the rubber in the tires should work as shock absorbers, and the remainder of the shock should go up the dowel rods, getting less and less as it gets towards the box.
Good luck! I hope that made sense. It’s hard to explain without drawing pictures!
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LOL
This is the difference between an accelerated physics class and others
What I did was make a kind of upside-down rocket, with propeller wings at the top. So it spinned as it fell. I added a cone on the bottom made from 2 crumpled papers. and I had
the egg in a cup slide down a cylindrical frustrum (cylinder bigger at one side than the other). We had to have the egg
fall out when its turned over
Or, you can just take a large bag of popcorn, seeds, anything
of the sort, open it, take out half,put egg in, refill it, and it should work.
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You could try floating the egg in something filled with saltwater. The water with the salt would cause increase buoyancy and then the water would slow it down fairly rapidly without providing enough force to break your egg.
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