Blog 15

In this last week of Physics, we all participated in the "Egg Drop Lab". In this lab each group became independent and had the task of creating an Egg Drop Device with a purpose to protect the egg from damage after dropping it off the top of Akahi. My group's device was fairly simple and consisted of fairly common household materials. It starts with a sandwich sized ziploc bag filled with pillow stuffing. This is where the egg is placed. It's left open so upon impact the cushion can compress (and the air has somewhere to exit).This ziploc bag is then placed into a plastic bag filled with crumpled pieces of paper. It was placed on the very top so upon dropping the paper would absorb some of the impact. Underneath the paper balls (but still in the plastic bag) was a sealed ziploc bag filled with water. We chose to do this as another measure of absorbing impact. As it hits the ground, the force will be directed to the sides of the ziploc bag as the water bursts out of it. This ziploc bag also served well making our device bottom-heavy so the wind didn't man handle our device. This allowed our device to drop how we intended it. We chose these materials because they were common and inexpensive.