Egg Drop Competition Day

Egg after the drop

I think that the parachute restriction was most limiting because our container dropped too fast and hit the ground too hard. I feel that if we had a parachute attached to the container I feel our egg would not have broken. The most effective part of our container would have to be the bubblewrap. I think this was the most effective because we used a lot of it and it cushioned the egg very well. I think the least effective part was the milk carton. I think this because it was hard and it didn't cushion the egg very well when it made impact with the ground. If we had to add a second egg to our container we would have to carefully wrap each egg in tissue paper and then divide them with bubblewrap. I feel this idea would safely support two eggs.

Container mass- 57.2 grams
Time of fall- 0.75 seconds
Distance of fall- 5 meters
Condition of egg- Broken
Points earned- 0

Egg Drop Test Day

We tested our egg drop container the other day to see if it would work or if it would fail. We decided to start dropping the container from about 3 meters and it survived. The next drop was from 4 meters and the egg decided to break. We went back to the classroom and discovered that we needed more padding on the outside of the container, not on the inside. We put bubblewrap on the outside of the container and added just a bit more padding on the inside and went and tested our container out again. We started off at 3 meters and survived so we went straight to 5 meters. At 5 meters it hit the floor and bounced a couple times and to our surprise the egg survived. We dropped it a couple more times and it survived each drop. Our container is 57.2 grams.

Our egg drop container