What is the best way to protect an egg when dropping it?

What is the best way to protect an egg when dropping it?

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 do the egg drop challenge?

Procedure

1. Come up with an idea of some type of container you can make to protect an egg from a high fall.
2. Build your container and place the egg inside.
3. Drop the egg from someplace high. (Be sure it’s safe and an adult is with you.)
4. After you drop it look and see if your egg cracked or remained intact.

How can you drop a raw egg on concrete without cracking it?

The correct answer to the Riddle is “Concrete floor can not be cracked by an egg”.

What is the purpose of egg drop project?

Purpose: To explore concepts of momentum and collision by developing a container to lessen the force of impact when an egg is dropped from a high place.

What is the action in the egg drop?

Gravity causes an object to fall to Earth when dropped. Drop an egg from eye level so that it breaks. When the egg hits the ground with a given force, the ground exerts the same force back on the egg. The faster the egg falls, the greater this force is.

What absorbs egg shock?

Shock Absorbing Materials Flour is made of very small particles, and may cushion your egg better than than larger packing peanuts. Experiment with various substances like popcorn, flour, sugar, sand and crumpled plastic bags.

Can you squeeze and break an egg?

The real strength of an egg lies in its shape. A side on blow from a sharp object puts pressure across the thin shell and easily breaks it. But squeezing directs pressure into the egg so that it compresses along, not across the shell.

Can an egg be crushed by hand?

Conclusion: It is impossible to crack an egg in an upright position, but possible (although hard) to crack an egg on its side.

Can you crush an apple with your hand?

Remove the stem and then wriggle the base of your thumbs (actually part of your palms) into where the stem was. If you put your hands in this position without the apple and pull your fingers toward your wrists, you will notice that your thumbs roll out. This rolling is the force that will split the apple open.

What came first the chicken or the egg?

So in a nutshell (or an eggshell, if you like), two birds that weren’t really chickens created a chicken egg, and hence, we have an answer: The egg came first, and then it hatched a chicken.