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Re: Egg drop help Please..:-)
Posted by Ryan Shanley.   [PICTURE: SAME | NEW | HELP]


Student on team #191, The X-Cats, from Joseph C. Wilson Magnet High School and Xerox.

Posted on 4/16/2000 6:40 PM MST


In Reply to: Re: Egg drop help Please..:-) posted by Thomas A. Frank on 4/14/2000 1:59 PM MST:



Well, I did something like that as a team-building exercise for our team at the begining of this FIRST year, and my idea, which kept the egg in one piece (and weighed virtually nothing) was to bury the egg in layers of crumpled up paper (newspaper, I think) to cushion the impact. Depending on how high of a drop we're talking about (mine wasn't anywhere near seven floors), this could require an awful lot of paper, but since paper weighs so little, this might be worth a try. From what I saw in our team's activity, keeping in mind the comment on how well eggs absorb compression should do you well.
I'd also love to hear what you pick as the best method, and how it works out.
-Ryan Shanley


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