What is the best material to protect an egg?
Possibilities include balloons, popcorn, packing peanuts, wads of paper or cereal puffs. Encase the egg in any of these inside a paper or plastic bag, a sock or a stocking. If you have any bubble wrap around the house, wrapping the egg in several layers of bubble wrap should also provide a good cushion.
How do you make a container that will protect an egg?
Fill an empty space in the container with cotton balls, bubble wrap or loosely crumpled newspaper to provide more support for the egg. Attach the lid to the container with masking tape, making sure that all edges and corners of the lid are taped securely so the lid will not fall off upon impact.
Does bubble wrap protect egg?
The container protects the egg because it is packed with bubble wrap. When the package hits the pavement, all of the tiny bubbles of air should protect the egg from being damaged. The egg is protected by 8 layers of bubble wrap, so that is a lot of little air pockets!
How high can you drop an egg without it breaking?
The Challenge: On August 22, 1994, David Donoghue threw an egg out of a helicopter onto a golf course in the UK, from a height of 213 meters (700 feet). He now has the record for the longest egg drop without breaking in the world (all without an outside structure for added protection!).
At what speed does an egg crack?
That means that the egg has a velocity of 11.3 feet per second when it hits the counter. If the egg falls from 3 feet, the velocity is 13.9 feet per second, or 23% faster. If you drop it from 8 feet, the speed is 22.6 feet per second. It will take a lot more padding to protect an egg falling that fast.
Do eggs break when they land on grass?
To do this you must hold the egg pointed end uppermost before dropping it, and make sure you drop it on grass (ie something soft) not concrete. When the egg hits the ground the forces of the impact are distributed around the shell so it does not break.
What is the maximum force that an average egg can experience before breaking?
5 ½ pounds
What is the force required to break an egg in Newtons?
25 Newtons
How much pressure does it take to break an egg end to end?
Usually, it takes a little more than 5 ½ pounds of force to crack an eggshell — much less than the weight of a human being — but the precise amount of force needed depends on the direction in which that force is applied and how much the force is distributed (or not) over the surface of the shell.