For my physic’s blog post this week, it’s going to be about our egg drop experiment. To start off, this was a hard task considering the fact that my partner and I have never done one before. We spent hours in Target and hours at home trying to prepare and put together different items in hopes of protecting our egg. In this picture, you can see what our experiment looked like after the drop. Our egg sadly broke as a result of the fall. It’s hard to see, but the egg definitely, full-on, cracked. To protect our egg, we used 5 bags of bubble wrap and then stuffed the inside with timothy hay (the kind of hay rabbits eat). We thought that the thick padding of hay would absorb all the momentum from the drop but we were proved wrong. We were sad that our design failed because we spent a lot of time thinking about it, including going back to Target and test dropping it off their fire exit ladder at 9 at night. Although we may have not gotten the extra five points, I learned that there’s way more simpler ways to protect the egg…including just two pieces of foam with a rubber band holding the egg in the middle. I liked this experiment because I hadn’t done one like it before and it made me think outside the box.
Soooooo we spent all that time in Target and re-discussing ideas and ours still didn't work. That's okay, at least we got the idea of what we were supposed to know now :)
ReplyDeleteAww sorry that your egg didn't survive! It was a good idea though. Maybe it just needed a little more cushion.
ReplyDeleteYou know, I thought your guys' idea was really good. I would think that five layers of bubble wrap would've worked too, it's too bad your egg broke. Good job anyway :)
ReplyDelete"Definetely, full-on, cracked." Yes, I believed that this would've worked and absorbed the shock but maybe it was because it was packed too much. Anyway, I thought that your egg drop looked pretty great:)
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