How To Write An Egg Drop Project

I took my time leisurely as I didn't start my project until 2016. I buckled down and started working on my project furiously. I remember calling companies to help donate materials to my project ¨Hello could you help me construct my Eagle Project for Boy Scouts? I would need 200 bricks and 4 yards of dirt.¨ Every phone call was getting me closer until I finally got to the day where I broke ground on my project. The day my troop and I broke ground it was 90 degrees and my friends were there helping me wearing work boots, jeans, long sleeve shirts, and gloves. We poured and mixed 10 bags of concrete weighing 80 pounds each without the weight of adding water too. We poured 4-5 gallons of water in for every 2 bags and mixed about 175 pounds of concrete in a wheelbarrow. The sweat was dripping down while the project was going up. It took 220 hours to plan, organize, and finish my project. I went back three days later once the concrete and brick set. I drilled four holes in the stone top and put on the plaque. My Eagle project was complete.

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

In the lab of “The Falling Eggs and Automotive Lab”, we had to design a protective device able to hold the egg and allowing it survive from the impact of hitting the ground from the top of the staircase. We did this lab to investigate newton’s Laws and prove how they work. In the lab, we have to observe the forces that act on the egg and evaluate the way they work. We do this lab with an egg to relate to a real life collision with a car. The egg is essentially the person and the device that the egg is in is the Airbag. We use our knowledge about airbags and apply that to this lab in order to make the egg survive and not crack.

were very poor, but somehow, many architectural feats were being made. The U.S. Government was still building the greatest dam in the world before the Depression, the Hoover Dam, which lasted five years to build. It takes a lot of manpower and materials for the Government to build this great dam, so they hired contractors to build it and the The U.S. provides the materials. Men of six companies were hired to build the dam in 7 years or penalties will ensue; the men were called, Six Companies, Inc. Remarkably, the contractors banded together to build the dam because of the immense size of the structure, one contractor cannot do the task alone (America's Experiences). The Dams magnificent feat in becoming USA’s greatest dam inspired the same contracting firm to work on a certain bridge in the west (Hiktzik). During the time Hoover Dam was being constructed, out in the west, another architectural feat was occurring. In 1933 San Francisco, California, construction starts on what will soon to be one of America’s greatest landmarks, The Golden Gate Bridge. One of the bridges architects, Joseph B. Strauss, a man who built many bridges across the U.S., was involved in the bridge project. Strauss and his colleagues had to deal with many problems about the bridge such as people saying it had to be impossible or it was expensive and a hazard to the environment (History.com). Once the bridge was funded with thirty-five million dollars,

This used engineering because we had to design a scale drawing of each piece and measurement in the design. There was only little room for human error for it could have been fatal for the design. This was a much harder project than the rest and it took a substantial amount of skill to develop a good plan for the bridge. This made the students think and perform precise (as always) measurements. Lots of math was involved in the building in the bridge.

As I stared at the behemoth of a project standing before me at four in the morning, wondering if it would ever be done, I asked myself a simple question: “Why?” Why had I taken on this huge assignment? Why had I come up with this crazy idea? Why had I made this project into something bigger than it had to be? Looking back, the answer is simple - I love a challenge.

In ASCE meeting, the chief engineers of Quebec Bridge Company and the Phoenix Bridge Company, Edward Hoare and John Sterling Deans, reached an agreement. Phoenix Company agreed to provide plans for the bridge for free in return of Quebec Bridge Company choosing their tender for final construction. The Quebec Bridge Company hired Theodore Cooper, a renowned bridge builder, as their consulting engineer. Quebec Bridge was one the most ambitious bridges in the world and in Cooper’s resume this would be the greatest accomplishment. He refused having another consulting engineer reviewing his decisions.

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.

Primarily I learned that when doing similar projects it is important for me to derive several designs or solutions to a problem in order to choose the best one. I think this was one of the factors that greatly attributed to the project as the group was able to choose the optimal possible design for the particular project. This is certainly a strategy to utilize in the future.

Procedures: To start my experiment I am going to gather all my materials to conduct my experiment. listed under the materials section. I start by poking holes in the top of eggs and I add four different colors to represent the different heights. Red is for the height of 3 ft, blue is for the height of 5-feet, yellow is for the height of 7 feet, and green is for the height of 9 feet. Set up 8 ft ladder.

In the past construction also took less time. One reason for this is that safety regulations were not nearly as strict then as they are now. It was understood 80 years ago that any major construction project would come with the loss of life. According to Lisa Vorderbrueggen from Contra Costa Times, for every $1 million to be spent on a project regarding high steel work, there would be one death. In total the bridge cost was $77 million (equivalent to about $1.3 billion in current dollars) and resulted in 24 deaths (Vorderbrueggen).

I very much enjoyed the balloon car project. The most enjoyable part was building the car itself. LEGO is an old hobby of mine, so using it to make a balloon car added a whole new layer of fun to the project. The best part was if we broke the car or something went wrong, we could always rebuild it to almost exactly as it was before.

The new contractors were very experienced at working with concrete, but lacked the knowledge and experience with working with steel. Because of this, John Holland only took on the work on the basis of a labour management contract, which puts them in charge of the labour, but all the engineering decisions were still up to World Service & Constructions. This lead to confusion and lack of communication between the parties working on the construction of the bridge.

Our group created a Pratt bridge design in order to maximize our efficiency with the limited amount of resources we were given. We also chose this type of bridge because it was simple and allowed for us to complete it within the given time frame. Our bridge was constructed using ⅛” x ⅛” balsa wood sticks, string, cardboard, paper, and a lot of hot glue. The balsa wood was used to make the frame, the cardboard was used to act as a level plane for the cans to stand on and as reinforcement for the sides of the bridge, and the paper and string were both used to construct the remaining roadbed. Balsa wood was used for the frame because it acts as a sturdy foundation. Cardboard was used as a level place to set our cans because of how smooth, flat, and sturdy it is. Cardboard was also used and attached to the sides of our bridge, as well as some of the joints, because it is very sturdy and does not pull apart or flex easily. Lastly, we used string and paper for the

The bridge has a very well designed ‘sustainability’ concept, relying on upcycled materials to complete the bridge. These upcycled materials consist of the wood, the fishing net, the oil barrels and the plastic shielding for the barrels. These materials can be used for functional roles in the design, such as platforms, floatation, safety lines across hand rails, and so on. The bridge’s sustainability concept can be further supported by the ease of replacing materials, and not throwing them in the bin. The materials such as wood, plastic and pieces of metallic bolts and nuts can be recycled and reused for other purposed such as furniture, storage or completely recycled back into a molten form for the metallic objects.