How do i design a box so an egg will not break from dropping them from 10 meters?

Question

no packing material
no parachutes

Answer 1

My kids had to do this junior high. One of them used an athletic shoe, with some other stuffing. the egg did not break when dropped off the side of the school building.

Answer 2

I remember this exercise from high school physics class. It was my only successful physics project. I, of course, did this at the very last second, and surrounded my egg with bread in a plastic tupperware bowl . I packed the bread in the bowl really tight so there was no movement. After I dropped the egg off the high school stadium, the bowl was cracked, but the egg was in tact.

Your project sounds harder than ours. I would guess that bread would constitute packing materials. What if you suspended the egg in the middle of the box with rubber bands? The bands would have to be pulled pretty taut so that there was little movement for the egg-- the egg must not touch the sides of the box, no matter how hard the box hits the ground. The bands would possibly absorb the shock of the drop.

Answer 3

Where do you go to school? I had this exact same assignment in package design class at BSU in 1970. Design a package so that the egg it contains will not break when dropped from a height of 6 feet. It took me about a half hour to come up with the answer and about 5 minutes to create the package.

There were several of us who were successful at this assignment, so those who passed the 6 feet test were taken to the 3rd floor and dropped the packaged eggs out the window to the amazement of the students walking by. I dropped my package last. It just sort of floated down as the students below laughed. My egg was unharmed.

MY SIMPLE ANSWER TO THIS ASSIGNMENT:

Buy a big natural sponge, cut it to the shape you wish (box shape for example), cut a slit in the middle of the sponge, insert the egg deep into the sponge to about the middle of the sponge so it has all-round padding. My package had about 4 inches of sponge surrounding the egg from all sides. Make sure you use a good fresh non-rotten, egg with no cracks in it.

Answer 4

we had to do that for physics class...but we at least got to make paper parachutes...I used the top half of a 2 liter coke bottle and taped a bunch of straws on the inside (with the ends sticking out the nozzle) to hold the egg in place. Mine survived the first drop but not the second...and it was so long ago I wouldn't be able to tell you the measurements from the platform to the ground.

Hope that helped a bit.

Answer 5

I am not a scientist but it seems to me that if the box could survive the fall then an appropriate flexible device would save the egg? Perhaps some flexible strands/ropes/cords/whatever (resembling flexibility like rubber bands) would control the movement of the egg. Of course they should be fastened to the corners and centers of each wall (egg centered) to allow the egg to move in any direction caused by sudden stops but be able to return to original position with minimum over correction?? Perhaps???"

Answer 6

Make a styrofoam "box" that is as large as possible in all dimensions--so big that it will essentially float when dropped. Look for big styrofoam pieces that are used to pack big appliances. Glue them together in a chaotic random pattern with pieces sticking out in all directions. Test drop it from 10 meters to make sure it falls very slowly and does not fall apart. Then dig out a hole for the egg and glue the egg inside the hole.

Answer 7

hmm if you have straws you can build sort of like a spring for your egg so that when it hits the ground it would bounce and lessen the impact on the egg...to do this just fold a peice of straw in half and then fold another straw and make an "x" with the straws...place the egg in the center of the "x" and put the whole thing in the box but make sure the straws can't touch the bottom of the box...test it out by pushing the egg down and letting go..if it bounces then ur good
gosh i hope that all made sense

Answer 8

Make a harness out of rubber bands and attach them to the corners of the box, (all eight) centering the egg in the middle of the box.

Answer 9

the box should have a bladder.allowing the egg to surrounded in air.like an egg surrounded by balloons

Answer 10

if ur not worried about the shell, just the egg, try hard boiling it.
P.S. someone was asking about eggs a few minutes ago. any connection. thx for 2 pts.