Egg Drop Lab

In football the force of impact can be dangerous. Helmets are constructed to protect the brains of the players. Without this protection the player will receive major damage from the impact of the force. In this lab, students will construct a device that will protect an egg from the impact force from the drop. The egg acts as a substitute for the brain and the device is the “helmet” for the egg. The independent variable of this experiment is the trials; the dependent variables of this experiment are time and velocity. By using the laws of physics, students will construct an efficient device that will protect the egg from the harsh impact of force.

The science behind this project is conservation of momentum, conservation of energy, force time trade off, and Newton’s first, second, and third laws. These can be used to ensure the eggs safety before, during, and after the egg is dropped. When dropped there are many forces that act upon the egg, some of these are gravity, speed, velocity, and acceleration. When the project is built it is important that this is taken into account. If the science behind all of it is used properly the egg should not break when it hits the ground.

Making the experiment is not that hard (in my opinion). Besides the experiment taking your time, and your pateince, the experiment will require you to make a carrier for the egg (usually made from wood, plastic, straw, or paper). The next material you will need is the wheels. The wheels are goiong to probably be made out of similar materials. You also will need a seat, which the placement of that seat can be anywhere. The few final things you will need is an elevated surface such as a table. You will need a ramp for the carrier to go down, and you will need a wall to stop it of course. From there you can add any of the safety features you feel neccesary, and see what happens. If the egg stays together, congrats! Your car works, but if it doesn't crack don't worry you still did a good job, because the egg represents a human. To make the egg even more believable as a human, you can add putty to the outside which simulates skin, and the inside of the egg is organs, and delacate tissue. The egg car was also used to learn about Kinectic energy.Kinetic energy is energy in motion. When the car is atop the ramp, the carrier would have an amount

For this project, I made a capsule for an egg that is to be dropped from about twenty feet. This capsule that I made was not what I was thinking at first but when I started to build it, I saw that this capsule would hold better than the one that I was thinking which was a triangular capsule with the egg in the middle but I saw later one that the egg would break if it hit one of the flat sides. The capsule is a cube that is made out of the tongue depressors and I used most of the yarn for the big cage and I used the Elmer’s glue to glue the tongue depressors together. I used pieces of the paper clips to hold the popsicle sticks together with the tongue depressors and some

rate of fall of an object was determined by its weight held that matter was constructed out

Kinetic energy is the energy an object possesses due to its motion. The difference between kinetic energy and potential energy is the kinetic energy is the energy of an object that is already in

This means that if the work done by the force is positive, the potential energy of the object is decreased. Let’s take the example of an apple that drops from the branch of a tree. In this case, Gravity does work to move the apple from the branch to the ground. Meanwhile, potential energy gets converted into kinetic energy when in motion and finally at the ground, the apple contains less potential energy. Basically, work is the change in potential energy.

The purpose behind the egg drop project is for students to understand the concept of momentum, collision, impulse and force. To do this, they will create a protective carrier that will surround the egg. The egg will then be dropped from a certain height. The device that is created should weigh enough to increase the time of impact, therefore decreasing the force of impact on the egg so it doesn’t crack.

1) What is kinetic energy, and how does it differ from potential energy? Kinetic energy is due to motion, while potential energy is due to position

Egg Drop Lab Essay Forces are around us all. They are everywhere you go. In this essay I will be talking about forces, motion, and energy and how they applied to our egg drop lab. For my hypothesis”If the egg as soft stuff on the outside of our container,then the soft stuff will absorbs the pressure and force that it goes through when it hits the floor. ”This essay will have multiple details on how the forces, motions, and energies were applied to our egg lab.

We had to do an egg drop so when it is dropped from 20 ft it wouldn’t crack.. But I really didn’t have any background knowledge on egg drops because I never did one. But I did know that by putting a plate on the bottom it would make it float down and not fall. So when it was dropped from 20ft it wouldn’t crack.

Problem: How can I construct a design to keep an egg safe from a 5 meter fall?

Also, the container demonstrates the Transformation of Energy because when I release the egg drop, it goes from potential to kinetic. When it hits the ground, it goes from kinetic to sound and then to mechanical. The egg drop container has kinetic and potential energy in the form of gravitational energy. It has gravitational potential energy because the reason it’s coming down is due to the force of gravity. The egg drop demonstrates the Law of Conservation of Energy because none of the energy is destroyed on impact with the ground; it instead is transformed into potential, mechanical or sound energy.

There are many forms of energy. The types of energy that can affect the toy car are potential energy, kinetic energy, and work of friction. Potential is the energy of an object due to its position. Kinetic energy is the energy due to motion. Friction plays a part because it shows how much energy is needed for the car to move. All these energies are intertwined in the toy car.

Other types of energy lie between kinetic and potential energy or are an amalgamation of both types.