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1 Egg Drop Project

2 Your task for this project is to make a container that safely houses one egg that will be dropped from the landing of the stairwell. The egg should not break.

3 Rules The egg must be 1 large chicken egg.
The container can only be made by using wooden toothpicks and glue. Bamboo skewers are not toothpicks, appetizer toothpicks are not acceptable. White glue, wood glue and hot glue are the only types of glue allowed. The container must be at least 50% toothpicks, by volume. More toothpicks than glue is ok, more glue than toothpicks is not ok. The egg may not be modified in any way (no hard boiled eggs, no eggs completely covered in hot glue).

4 The container with egg must be completed at home; no class time will be given. Drop day is Tuesday 8th. You may work as an individual or with ONE other person. You may not work with a student in another teacher’s class.

5 More Stuff The egg is considered broken if goo comes out; a crack that does not allow goo out is still an ok egg. If the egg does not break, you can drop the egg from a higher position for extra points but everyone must drop the egg from the lowest position.

6 Your grade will be calculated based on the following:
15% Egg does not break 40% Engineer’s Report 35% Calculations 10% Model and Peer review If you will be gone on December 8th, you must complete your project ahead of time. If you are ill, you need to have someone else get the project to school for you. There are no exceptions to the due date.

7 Engineer’s Report and Calculations
Your Engineer’s Report must be typed. It should include a section explaining the basic design of your container, the advantages and disadvantages of your design, and an explanation of the physics behind why you created your container as you did. You should use specific physics vocabulary in your explanation. This report should be about 1 page long, it should be in paragraph form not a bullet-list.

8 You need to calculate the velocity of the egg and container just as it hits the ground. Calculate the change in momentum of the egg and container when it hits the ground. Your calculations should be included with the Engineer’s report but they do not need to be typed. You must show all work with proper equations, sig figs and units.

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