how could you drop an egg 35 feet without breaking?

Question

I need some ideas for my egg dropping contest

Answer 1

Drop it onto a very large "air bag".

Answer 2

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how could you drop an egg 35 feet without breaking?
I need some ideas for my egg dropping contest

Answer 3

The challenge here is not the drop, but the impact.
If you can prevent a sudden impact then you will succeed.

1. Drop it 36 ft. Then you will have dropped it 35 ft without impact until it reached 36 ft.

2. Cushion the impact with foam so that it's not as sudden.

3. Throw it up 35 ft; it will drop 35 ft, then you catch it.

4. Encase it in foam or a specially built cage to absorb the impact.

Good Luck.

Answer 4

i did mine with a soda can and it survived a drop of about 65 feet from some football bleachers. AND we had the requirement that the egg had to be at least half visible from the casing.

i took the soda can and very carefully cut off the top. I then placed a good deal of copper bb's in the bottom of the can so that it would always be bottom heavy (this is because due to the exposure rule my egg actually extended above the top opening of the can). on top of the bb's i put ALOT of cotton balls very loosely packed to form a deep nest for the egg: remember, you want to make the stopping distance of the egg as long as possible... pack your padding too tight and impact'll crush the egg, pack it too loose and there's not enough to stop the egg from hitting the bb's, test it out before the actual trial.

next i sat the egg on top of the cotton and then used thin strips of duck tape to form a cross over the top of the egg, securing it to the open top of the can. the cool part is that you can see at least half of the egg this way, and people think it'll fail since the egg sits partially above the can (you don't want it to sit too high though, only about a third of the egg's height should be exposed above the top of the can). just make sure you put enough bb's so that even if you throw the can up upside down it'll come down bb side first.

Answer 5

Haha I did this in my grade 7 Science Olympics...my team put the egg inside a popple...remember those things? Maybe you're not old enough. They're stuffed animals that you could flip inside out and turn them into a ball.

P.S. We won.

Answer 6

Find a moon or asteroid and drop it there. The asteroid Ceres should be a good choice.

If performing this stunt on Earth is a requirement, then find a hot tub, turn the jets on full blast, and drop it in that.

Answer 7

before dropping, wrap and tie the egg with a strong thin rope which is longer than 35 ft..then release to fall..

Answer 8

attach it to a balloon that has a slightly less buoyancy than the egg. it will float to the ground and you could then drop it from 300 feet.

Answer 9

Drop it from 36 feet...

Answer 10

boil it lmao... use a Styrofoam or however you spell it ball with paddine inside.. place the egg in the center and hold it together with TIGHT rubber bands. it worked for me from about 45 foot