How to drop an egg from a 3 storey building without breaking it?

Answer 1

pack it in foam, put a parachute on it... and drop it from the BOTTOM of the 3 story building!!!

Answer 2

Some high schoolers around here had this for a project and generally the ones that fared the best were ones where the egg was suspended in a frame. They would build like a cage thing with hard foam or metal and use something in the inside to hold the egg suspended in the center. I imagine this worked the best because it causes the apparatus to distribute the force over a greater area.

Answer 3

I have tried this experiment several times, and have come up with the following best three ways;

1) Wrap it in lots and lots and lots of paper. Toilet paper is the best. When the egg starts looking like the size of a basketball, go ahead and drop it.

2) place the egg in the middle of a contraption that is designed to take the damage rather than the egg. An example is to make a soccerball-type patterned ball out of drinking straws, and also place the egg in the middle of the ball by making a cradle out of the drinking straws as well.

3) Make a huge windmill-type thing - where the windmill, as it turns, arrests the accelleration of the descent of the egg.

Good luck, and let us know how you go!!

Answer 4

If you drop an egg from a three storey building, it's unlikely that the building will break!!!

Answer 5

Basically, you want to either reduce or dissipate the force.

To reduce the impact, you want to dissipate the kinetic energy of the egg over a longer period of time. This is the same concept as to why cars are designed to crumple on collision instead of remaining rigid. By stretching the impact energy over a longer period of time, you can cause less damage to your cargo (passengers in a car, or in your case an egg).

You can either address this problem at launch (parachute, glider, helicopter fins, etc.) or you can do at impact (collapsible manifold, cushion, etc.).

Depending on the materials at your disposal, it may be easier to attach an apparatus to the egg to have it land fairly gently after being dropped.

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Answer 6

uhmmmm...well, i've went to experimenting on eggs just right after our sci-math olympics and i have came up with an idea about making a miniature of something like a parachute..just to support the egg..anything would do...well at least for us, we've made a paper-made parachute with only a height of much less than with the height of your building.... force,pressure and area are the identities included in that situation....just remember that F=P/A

Answer 7

there is no 3 "storey" building to drop it from You are telling us a story

Answer 8

I had this project in grade school . I put it in a plastic 1/2 gall on milk jug with a rubber band net inside, stuffed full of toilet paper, with a parachute and it was fine. But shouldn't you figure it out for your self?

Answer 9

You didn't state if cooked or
fresh...
Either way, this will work....
Wrap egg in bubble material,
cotton (balls) blanket, and continue
wrapping it in different (strong )
materials until it forms a huge ball.
Also, make sure that the final
resting place is clear of shrubs,
branches, trash cans, trees .etc....
Good luck......

Answer 10

pack the egg in a good damage proof case and drop it by a parachute i bet it will not break