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Egg Drop Challenge Research Paper

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You are twenty five feet- or approximately seven meters- in the air, plummeting to a concrete ground. Your only protection is the vehicle in which you are sitting in. You will not survive based on luck, but rather science. The Egg Drop Challenge is an Engineering Design Challenge, which will be using the concepts of Force, Momentum, Gravity, and Energy. In partners of two we must create a vehicle that can minimize the force of impact from a high drop while protecting the egg inside. Nevertheless, these goals do not come without constraints. Not only must we complete this project in exactly nine days, but we must also stick to the rules given. Such rules include; only using the materials allotted, and the vehicle built cannot exceed the width or height of 60 centimeters. With these constraints given, the participants in the challenge must make sure that their goals can still be met. Like stated in the introduction, this challenge will not be completed by using plain …show more content…

The first product was a phone case. While when shopping, people tend to pick cases partly on how they look, though we also check how protective they are. This is because we want to make sure that our phones will be safe incase of an impact. The main protection put in place, is the system in a secure phone case, that allows it to absorb the energy from the crash. There are energy absorbing systems in the sides of the phone case, which will keep the actual phone from harm. The second product that faces similar would be a car. The main protection system in a car would be the crush zone. This is a system in the front of the car, which upon collision will scrunch up, and absorb energy similar to the phone case. With these two products in mind, we are able to create a better vehicle that will increase the chances of the egg

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