Egg Drop Experiment Essay

For my egg drop project I used marshmallow fluff. I took a little of fluff out and put the egg in. Then I put some more fluff on top of it and compressed it in. When we got assigned the project the first thing I thought of was marshmallow fluff. I wanted something that would hold the egg so it wouldn’t move and break. I also taped the lid with duct tape so the lid wouldn’t fly off or break. The marshmallow fluff is super sticky and thick so I thought it would be perfect to hold the egg in place. When thinking of my project I thought how I could make the egg stay in motion. I thought of Newton’s Law of Motion. An object in motion stays in motion unless an external force is applied to it. So, when the container hits the ground it’s going to cause the egg to move. I needed to think of something that would hold it so it wouldn’t move. I thought of inertia also because the egg has to remain uncharged it needs to stay in one place in order for the egg not to break. Using the marshmallow fluff with the egg relates to the law of gravity as well.
When I dropped the container I had to make sure the force of the ground hitting the container didn’t break the egg. The force of the fall also goes with the speed at which the container is falling. The
The lid was three centimeters so the container with the lid was fifteen centimeters. What I did was I took some fluff out of the jar. Then I placed the egg inside the container with some fluff. After that I put the egg in the fluff and put the other fluff on top of it and buried the egg in fluff. I knew that if I got the egg to stay in motion it would never be in motion. When I dropped the container the fluff protected the egg like walls. The egg did not break because the fluff acted as a block to when the container hits the ground. The fluff was pushing against the egg so the egg wouldn’t bounce around in the container and hit the walls. I dropped the egg right