egg drop

Egg Drop Project
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There were five forces that where acting on my container there where gravity, inertia, air resistance, shock, and impact. The contraption is trying to lessen the gravity for it would be so light weight that it will glide on the wind and not hit the floor so hard. And it is trying to alter the air resistance force so like I said to try to glide on the wind. Some of the feature of the container was the square block so no matter where it hit it would have the same amount of stuffing. The dimensions of the box where 6 for the height, 6 for the width, and 6 for length. The container serves to lessen or alter the effect of the force by being square so even padding and lightweight were it won’t hit the ground too hard.
Newton’s first law was an object in motion will continue moving unless something stops it from moving. That law relates to my project by saying my contraption will stay in motion till it hit the ground. Newton’s second law was heavier the object the more force it takes to move and lighter objects require less force too move. The force in which the egg hits the ground will equal the mass of the egg. Newton’s third law is for every action of force there is an equal and opposite reaction of force. While moving downwards, the force of gravity is pulling the egg down. However, when the force is acting on the opposite direction too that’s due to air resistance.
Some improvements that I could of have been made on my contraption would be to add some support on my contraption because with it fell my contraption bend and could of broke the egg. Another adjustment that could have been made should be to have had some padding in the side in case the contraption would have fallen on a corner.
I tested the contraption 4 times my first contraption ended with a cracked egg because had no support so instead of just bubble wrap I got a small plastic bag and put packing peanuts and bubble wrap. So I tried it again with the new way and cracked so I had my dad help figure out why it was because it needed like and outer shell to help it and that is when the cardboard box came and helped us. So I tried with the box and it broke and we figured out why. It was because the box fell and hit the corner so we added padding in all the side so no matter what side it hit it would be protected. So the last time we tested the contraption it worked.