In our school we are going to have an egg drop. HELP!?

Question

Can i get some ideas?
No jokes PLZ!!!
We start dropping from shoulder height and slowly proceed to 90 ft. We can use anything we can find at home.

Answer 1

hard boil it if you can haha
then wrap it in a couple sheets of cotton and put it in a paper towel tube that still has all its paper towel on it...stuff the ends with something and youre done
we did this in grade school and thats what the person did to win

Answer 2

You've got to let the egg decellerate (lose speed) inside the medium (the material you use for the casing. A raw egg is structurally engineered to be weak on the sides, but strong from top to bottom, which is why we crack the side. This is an old engineering trick. Don't just think physics. Think engineering.

First, the egg should drop on the TIP (not the bowl at the bottom and not the side because the side and bottom have more surface area and will break. Turn the egg upside down. This transfers energy from the smallest point to the largest point.

Two, case the egg in a soft material. My advice: a block of foam. Now the egg should not be held in place. It should move through the foam to absorb the shock. Get a block of foam padding about 30cm long and 10cm x 10cm on the bottom. Weight the bottom with something slightly heavy but soft: try erasers (the pink, square office-supply kind would probaly work). Put five erasers on the bottom, one on each corner and one in the bottom center. Cut a hole in the side of the foam brick about 3cm from the top. Hollow it out to fit the egg, and keep the opening small. Make cuts below the egg, each cut separated by a narrow, paper-thin strip of foam, for about 10cm down the length of the brick to allow the egg to travel down through the layers. Reinforce the sides of the brick so it doesn't tip over, and may add another five erasers to the bottom in case your brick is top heavy. Remember, we want it to hit bottom first. When you drop it, ideally, the bottom should hit first and the egg should travel through the medium, giving it's force into the medium. Good luck.

Answer 3

Eggs are very strong if you do not allow them to be struck by a hard concentrated force (crack them on the edge of a pan?). Also slower speed is better than high speed. Perhaps you can protect the egg with something like bubble wrap and give the package a large light profile to increase wind resistance (at 90 ft.!). Perhaps the egg can become a small paratrooper with a cushioned seat? Good luck. Watch out below or the yokes on you.

Answer 4

I have seen MANY different and wonderful idea created by students. Think of things that provide a cushion. There are plenty of soft cushiony things available.

Think of things that can absorb energy. Ideally though it should be able to spring back or continue to deform. Imagine a car in an accident. It can deform and absorb energy from the impact but only once.

There are plenty of ideas, be creative and use your imagination. Even if you don't win, the idea is to learn something. Believe it or not you can learn more from a failure than someone who wins. Especially if that someone copies somebody else's winning idea.

Answer 5

You need to pack the egg in light weight things. We did this in scouts. the egg that won was dropped from the roof and it was packed in marshmallows and a plastic crate that strawberries come in from the store. You can use bubble wrap or packing peanuts.
One group of boys tried a jaf of peanut butter. We let them try it just to teach why it would not work. That egg died a horrible death. Remember to keep it light weight.

Answer 6

My son did a science fair project on this. We wrapped the egg in a box with styrofoam peanuts, bubble wrap, and newspaper, and then a control with the egg in a different box. The peanuts worked best.

Answer 7

get two paper/styrofoam cups and put the egg in the middle of the two stacked cups. basically, stuff as many things to use as cushion in the middle such as bubble wrap, shredded pieces of paper, cotton balls...then tape the two cups together with the egg in the middle VERY tightly so there would be next-to-none impact when the egg hits the floor.

Answer 8

I won the egg drop in the entire Northeast region of the US

you have to scramble the eggs before you carry them

Answer 9

wrap the egg in bubble wrap, then wrap it in a bunch of paper towels, then get some cloth that you can put holes in, and put holes in the paper towel and put string attacted i did it a long time ago so i dont remember remember to test it before you do it if you can't test it, dont do my idea

Answer 10

do you mean an egg toss it is a game where you toss an egg to your friend and your friend tosses it back after this occurs you both step back away from each other till one of you drops it