<p>Hi. I need advice on building the safest container to put an egg in and drop from a height of 9 meters three times.</p>
<p>It has to be 20 cm each side, max 300 grams. We can't use cotton balls, paper of any sort (even kleenex), plates of any sort, balls or balloons, foam, saran wrap, food, tape, styrofoam, foam of any sort.</p>
<p>I want to maximize the time the egg is falling through the air and decrease momentum. ADVICE?</p>
<p>Google "egg drop", there are tons of sites on it. For starters, here's an idea:</p>
<p>"It has to be 20 cm each side, max 300 grams. We can't use cotton balls, paper of any sort (even kleenex), plates of any sort, balls or balloons, foam, saran wrap, food, tape, styrofoam, foam of any sort."</p>
<p>Hmm... try using a hydraulic piston made out of pvc (filled with water)... so when it hits the ground, the water compresses and the egg has uniform pressure on it (inside the piston). the egg should stand up to fairly high pressure if uniformly distributed (that is why it should be hydraulic). 300g is a lot of mass... you should be under the mass requirement (only need 100cc's or so)</p>
<p>haha... just thought that up... don't know if it would work, yet if it did, would be pretty awesome.</p>
<p>get a trash bag and a carboard box and some string...use the bag as a parachute, the box as the container, and attach them together with string...my guess is this is too easy hahah</p>
<p>other idea? get some corn syrup (high density) and put it in a container, make a "cradel" for the egg out of string or aluminum foil, suspend the egg from the lid of the container, so that once the top is one the egg is submerged in corn syrup...whatever impact-shocks the container takes on will be absorbed by the corn syrup (dont know what the weight would be then)</p>
<p>(1) Use a thick needle and syrigine to suck the egg content out of the egg shell. (2) Replace with helium and patch the hole. Use just enough helium to make sure the force due to gravity just barely pulls the egg down. (3) Watch it coast down to the floor. It's important that no one sees you doing steps (1) and (2).</p>
<p>(I'm not actually being serious.)</p>
<p>Don't do the syrup. My physics class had the same project last year and all the people that put their egg in a bottle filled with syrup or water all failed. Can you use baloons... probably not but try to make a parachute like the person said before. Last year I won by wrapping my eggs in a tin foil ball but I don't know if your teacher will allow that.</p>
