I recently dropped an egg from a roof-top and was able to achieve a drop of some 15 metres without the egg breaking. How? The roof was 16 metres from the ground. It was that last metre that always did ... Hope that this helps your reader. Here are some simple (and some stupid) ways to protect the egg from a messy end:
www.picotech.com/experiments/dropping_egg/dropping_eggs... www.picotech.com/experiments/dropping_egg/dropping_eggs.html
This short video helps you think about different ways to protect an egg falling onto a countertop. Egg drop experiments like this can be a lot of fun! ...
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In your experiments you could also try dropping the egg from different heights: 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc. An egg dropped from a higher height has more energy because it is going faster. That means that the cushioning system has to absorb more energy if it is going to protect the egg from breaking.
www.marshallbrain.com/science/egg-drop.htm www.marshallbrain.com/science/egg-drop.htm
*The object of the NAKED EGG DROP is to design and construct a structure to protect an egg from breaking when dropped from a variable height. An egg without any visible cracks or damage is considered as a success.
www.deafed.net/PublishedDocs/sub/970218b.htm
Jimmy-Kreutzer with his Skydiving Egg ... Check Out The Egg Drop Pics; Click on the image to enlarge ... Ron Javier With An Unbroken Egg...
orgs.jmu.edu/asme/eggDropPics.asp orgs.jmu.edu/asme/eggDropPics.asp
Working with a partner of your choice you are to design a package that will protect your egg from breaking when dropped from the third floor fire escape at Ray School.;
webinstituteforteachers.org/~vjohnson/eggdrop.html webinstituteforteachers.org/~vjohnson/eggdrop.html
The objective is to have a one or two person team construct a package to protect an egg (from breaking) which will be dropped free fall from a high spot selected by the teacher. In addition, the package should be built to drop as fast as possible and hit/stay on a target.
www.silverfalls.k12.or.us/foxes/staff/read_shari/egg_dr... www.silverfalls.k12.or.us/foxes/staff/read_shari/egg_drop_project.htm
PARTICIPATE IN THE BEACON DAY EGG DROP ... Egg drop celebrates ten years of ker-splat: a photo albumen A Very Punny Site ... Function (Is it going to prevent the eggs from breaking?)
www.link75.org/bcs/Beacon/eggdrop.html www.link75.org/bcs/Beacon/eggdrop.html
Students worked with a partner to come up with a design that would protect an egg from breaking when it experienced the force of hitting the ground when dropped from a significant height... the roof of the school!
schools.tdsb.on.ca/joyce/main/classroom/gd5_111_egg.htm... schools.tdsb.on.ca/joyce/main/classroom/gd5_111_egg.html