So for Physics, we have to drop a raw egg (unfrozen) from bleachers and retrieve the egg unbroken.
We make a package that prevents the egg from being broken. ( 30 cm on each side)
We are timed from when we take the egg out.
Ideas?
So basically, [b]design a transport mechanism to deliver a packaged raw chicken egg from the top of the stadium bleachers to the ground below and retrieve the unbroken egg as quickly as possible, using bare hands.[/b]
Update: 10 meter drop
parachute
Did this years ago.
Easiest thing to do is get a 2 litre plastic bottle lid, stick the egg inside it with some tissue covering the bottom so the egg isn't exposed to plastic, then use some string and some bin lining to cut out a parachute, then attach it to the lid.
Easy.
with a hole in the top though
I just made a box and put packing peanuts inside. Then I stuck the egg inside. Easy A.
put it in your mouth and jump off
Get scientific with this bitch. Non Newtonian fluids is where it's at.
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Can you put material on the landing site?
I made jello and put the egg in it. Then dropped it in a bottle in a triangle shape straw carrier with a parachute.
Crumple zones
Longer distance with higher resistance (Woah) = lower speed and so lower final energy when it reaches the egg
And a parachute to lower the initial speed further, of course. Don't forget to put a hole in it for a controlled decent.
Did this experiment so. many. times.
[QUOTE=one free man;24938935]Crumple zones
Longer distance with higher resistance (Woah) = lower speed and so lower final energy when it reaches the egg
And a parachute to lower the initial speed further, of course. Don't forget to put a hole in it for a controlled decent.
Did this experiment so. many. times.[/QUOTE]
But don't make the crumple zone too big, or it will fall over after the initial falling and the egg will break
Just get like 8 sponges and tape it to your egg. Mine survived all 10 meters.
When I had to do this, I just taped all kinds of soft stuff to it, then wrapped it with toilet roll.
Worked extremely well upto the stage I just launched it at the wall for laughs.
When I did, I had a paper that I rolled into a cone, stuffed with some newspaper and put the egg on that.
Then i put some sticks through the opening of the cone, so that if the cone falled down point-first, the cone wouldn't fall on it's side but instead just lean a little bit. The egg took the fall perfectly.
You should try this.
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I did this because we couldn't choose our material.
I did this with my friend and we won the contest
Make a parachute with paper and a small hole in the top, attach it to the egg container however you want and then make sure the egg has a load of padding with paper or whatever to stop it from shattering.
Replace the egg yolk with shock absorbing jelly.
draw a face on the egg of a man gettin totally stoked on weed and give him a joint (tape it to face) and then build him a body and then construct a big parachute that unfolds and says 420 EVERYDAY
and if your teacher asks you about it tell her to not mess
you win 1 to 0
In my physics class we had to build and calibrate a trampoline so that the egg would land in a "safety net." Many didn't.
OP is 12.
No really he must be I did this when I was 12.
I did it when I was 14
I did it once in High school.
Our lessons are never so much fun :saddowns:
Tape a long string to the egg and lower it down.
Make a cube out of metal (only the edges), make a sort of cradle for the egg and suspend this with elastics to each of the 8 vertices of the cube.
I recall the winners at my place put it in lots of little layers.
So they wrapped newspaper around it then added another layer and another.
It took a while to get out, and was completely unscathed.
Egg drop soup is good.
They did this on Mythbusters I believe, I can't remember how though..
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I suggest covering it in bubblewrap and tissue etc then covering that in a harder layer as to stop the force directly crushing the package.
Or if you are allowed to, wrap it in just normal tissue then tape it to stop the tissue removing itself, then roll more tape on it and lower it down by letting more tape loose.
I can come up with these all day
fuckin magnets to lower it down
Icecream tub wrapped in ducttape, fill with water and put egg in the water. Put the lid on, tape that shit down.
Water absorbs all the impact.
As a college experiment in my management and business class, we were required to split up in to teams of four and create a shuttle for the egg in the same exact scenario.
The surprising thing was that we had to create a shuttle that didn't break the egg, and we had to make it as cheaply as possible, buy "purchasing" resources such as paper cups, newspaper, tape, etc.
My team won -- we used a bunch of newspaper and tape to cushion the blow. It looked like a pipe bomb! I have pictures if you guys want me to upload some. Every other team tried the parachute routine -- it doesn't work. You want cushioning.
I don't know why I'm telling you guys this. It's mostly incoherent drivel but I thought it was a nice story to share, albeit never being read/cared for. The entire reason I bring it up, I guess, is because there's a fine line between efforts in grade school and efforts in college, where in college the amounts of effort and motivation are beyond anything I've ever seen.
Make the most out of this project, and out of every project. Make the most out of school, because at the end of the day, it really pays off.
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