Blogpost #14

This week, we had an egg drop experiment in which we had to create a device that would protect a regular sized egg from an approximately four story drop to cement. Creating a good device depended heavily upon the basic aspects of physics. Impulse, air friction, force, and mass all had to be taken into account. The video above depicts the device created by my partner and me being thrown off of Akahi Dining Hall. We wrapped the egg in a strip of tempur pedic mattress and placed it in an empty jar, along with cotton balls. We then placed the sealed jar in a ziploc filled with more cotton balls and surrounded by bubble wrap. Our idea was that all our materials would absorb most the impact of the device colliding with the ground, which would keep the egg safe. We had to be sure that it wouldn't bounce too, because that would put more force on the egg. In the end, our egg survived.