Thick Straws: The Physics Of Stereotyping

Imagine the life of a nomad, moving around to different place, meeting different people, and having different lifestyles. This is the life of the Walls family. In the book The Glass Castle, by Jeannette Walls, she explains that life as a nomad was never amazing. Her life of moving around and being the same old poor child isn’t what she wanted to be. Throughout her journey, she has been discriminated and stereotyped for her family’s actions, and for the way she looks to the rest of the world. The point of this essay is to tell you that there are obstacles like this outside of the world of fiction. With the school board’s recent sentiments regarding the lack of value that fiction provides, fiction should not remain

Once I have examined the eggs, I will then take them out of the containers and place them on a paper towel. Once I have dried the eggs off, I will start to test each one to determine how high each one can bounce and which one will break first. I will do this experiment by dropping each egg no more than 2 inches from a tabletop. I will make a note of how many bounces it took before each egg broke. I will record this on my data sheet. Once I have completed this experiment, then I will be able to answer the question I have.

The objective of this project was to create a structure that will protect a raw egg and prevent it from breaking when being dropped from a minimum height of two meters. A decent hypothesis or prediction one could develop before any experimental trials would be as follows. The structure that provides the longest duration of impact between the falling egg the ground will provide the desired results of an undamaged egg. The duration of time in which the ground applies a force to the egg carrying structure is referred to as impulse. The longer the span of impact time, the more mild the force acting upon

Today October 18, 2017, my partner and I did an egg drop experiment. We out the egg in a clear plastic jar with yarn surrounding it and balloons on the top of the jar. My partner dropped it. When I picked the jar up it didn’t looked cracked but when I opened it the egg was cracked but the yolk didn’t come out nor did anything else come out.

Initially, we didn 't have the faintest idea how to solve the question. At first we thought that the southern wind wouldn’t be able to push the egg at the top of the roof because it was an updraft, then we looked up how updrafts work and realized that updrafts didn’t work the way we thought. We also drew a sketch of the house to get a better image of what was happening, in case the direction of the wind had something to do with it. Then Sean read it again and

Our egg drop device was very compact with little to no, wiggle room for the egg to move around. Some of my peer's devices were larger and had more space for the egg. During their test drop, the egg had more inertia than the device causing it to fall faster. Therefore, the egg hit the ground before the rest of the device. The container did not provide enough protection and could not lessen the force of the ground on the egg. As a result, the egg broke. Our next device was secure around the egg the momentum of the device and the egg was the same. The compactness of our device was one of the reasons the egg stayed intact.

With the given materials, some straws, two pieces of paper and some tape, we were in groups told to produce and design something, that could make an egg survive a 4-meter free fall. After 20 minutes, we were to present and test our design.

Obtain an unshelled egg from your teacher. Handle the egg gently. Use a balance to find the egg’s mass and record it in the table. Place the egg in the container and add enough distilled water to cover it. Observe the egg after 20 minutes, one day, and two days.

For my egg I took a piece of cardboard and cut it into a small square. Following that I cut three slits in the cardboard in the form of a smaller square. I then took small popsicle sticks and put them into the holes in the cardboard and then hot glued them to the cardboard. To lessen the impact I took rubber bands and attached them across the cardboard from the popsicle sticks. I also did the same on the top with the egg in between. I also slowed the fall by creating a parachute. To make the parachute I cut it out of a trash bag. After cutting the bag I cut six pieces of yarn at eighteen inches each. The I taped the yarn to the bag at even places on the bag followed by the same on the cardboard. When attaching the yarn

Initial Design: Our group decided to try a parachute landing of the egg. To do this, we needed to have the parachute and egg inside a capsule under the nose cone. We thought that the nose cone would detach at the apex of the rocket’s flight due to the changing direction of the rocket. The rocket will reach its maximum height, stall, and then begin to fall. We planned to design the rocket to have a heavy weight at the front, so that it would land nose down. This means that after it has expended its fuel, the heavier nose will turn the rocket to be nose down. It is during this turn that my group hoped the centripetal force would pull the nose cone off the rocket, releasing the parachute and the egg capsule, allowing them to fall free of the

Drag, gravity, and impact everything that affects the egg drop project. Drag is a very forceful pull. Drag and gravity work together in a way because if there wasn't gravity to pull the object to the ground than drag wouldn't be able to come into play. Gravity is the force that pulls the object to the ground but drag is what makes the object slow down when gravity is pulling it through the air. The higher you drop the object from doesn't always mean that the object will maintain a higher speed. Once it reaches its terminal velocity (the speed where the drag from the air is equal to the force of gravity), it will stop accelerating and maintain a certain speed. Impact is another huge factor in this project because without impact than the egg

This experiment can be improved by having more variety of surfaces so the trials can be fairer. Timing how fast the cardboard box travelled down the surfaces can be improved. During the trials the cardboard box would be released before

How can you build a contraption that will protect an egg while falling down a balcony? If you have cushioning and support for the contraption, than it won't have as much impact, and drag will be working against gravity to slow the fall.How can you build a contraption that will protect an egg while falling down a balcony? If you have cushioning and support for the contraption, than it won't have as much impact, and drag will be working against gravity to slow the fall.The Contraption is made out of many materials that work together to protect the egg. When it drops, the cotton surrounding (along with the balloons) provide some cushioning for a softer landing. It lands at its bottom half, which has a little more protection than any other side. Gravity,

“How would you make a successful Egg Delivery Module?” When I was asked this question in science, I believed an Egg Drop Module would be easy to create. I was very wrong, though. The Egg Drop Module that my group constructed was not successful in keeping the egg safe. This is because of not anticipating the length of the drop and how hard the Egg Drop Module would hit the ground. If we had made changes, our module would have worked much better.

When the egg, by itself, is in free fall, it will be going at a high velocity which will result in the fragile egg breaking when it hits the ground. If a boulder was dropped at the same time as the egg vehicle the boulder would reach terminal velocity first because it has a greater mass. The reason hollow straws were used for the egg vehicle was because they do not have much mass and won’t reach terminal velocity very fast. If a material with a great deal of mass was attached to the egg vehicle the object would reach terminal velocity very fast and hit the ground with a lot of force. Hollow, weightless straws would cause the egg drop to hit the ground with less