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Egg Drop Project Essay

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Luis Berrios
3/7/12
Physics Honors
B Block
Egg Drop Project

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 …show more content…

When I went to check the egg, I saw that the egg just cracked a little, but it was less than what it was during the first trial, which broke completely.
When I saw that it survived more than the first trial, I saw that the only thing that it had to have was luck because when I tested it out on the grass, it survived,

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