Egg Drop

For this blog post, I’ll be talking about our egg drop lab. This past week, we constructed our own egg drop that descended Akahi’s 3.5-story tall building. As seen in the video, our contraption was made out of three sponges. We made a hole for the egg in the middle of a sponge and two supportive sponges on either side of it. To secure it together we used two headbands to keep the sponges in place. In order for an egg drop to be successful (an egg with no cracks in it) it needs to contain a small amount mass, materials that may crush easily or absorb the shock to the egg, a protective casing for it, and a way for the contraption to generate an increase in its fall time. Without a doubt, the sponges allowed our egg to survive its ‘cliff of impending death’ with its light weight, absorbable shock media, and a big enough surface area to decrease the fall time (the time it took to reach the ground).