Egg Impact Crash Test Project When first receiving this project I was not totally sure what I could use to keep my eggs safe, until I thought long and hard about various different options and finally came up with a plan. I chose to use numerous boxes, tall lysol wipe containers, rubber exercise bands, regular rubber bands and a few pieces of siding. The construction of my device was done with these objects as well as tape, a ruler, and scissors. Altogether, my project was not quite difficult to put together except for the lysol container and rubber part; I had to carefully cut the lysol containers and gently tape the rubber properly on them. First, I got a large box and taped boxes on two sides parallel to each other. The boxes I taped on
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This goes along with Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion- an object in motion or at rest stays in that state unless compelled to change its state by an outside force. The egg stays at rest until the pendulum hits the box, sending the box as well as the rubber exercise band and egg inside of it in motion. The egg goes with the momentum of the rubber band, the rubber band goes with the momentum of the box, and the box goes with the momentum of the swinging pendulum. I built my device to endure an inelastic collision, which is when two bodies collide and one or more object is deformed after impact. I designed my project so that the siding hopefully does not become damaged at all- but in reality, even if you do not see it, the siding and/or the pendulum is still becoming “deformed” after the impact force of the pendulum coming down and hitting my device. Throughout an inelastic collision deformation increases the time of speed and kinetic energy is not conserved; however, momentum is conserved, meaning that the total amount of momentum of the object is the same before and after the collision. My device should not encounter too much damage after impact, it should just go along with the momentum of the pendulum, letting the eggs move freely within the
This goes along with Newton’s 2nd Law of Motion- an object in motion or at rest stays in that state unless compelled to change its state by an outside force. The egg stays at rest until the pendulum hits the box, sending the box as well as the rubber exercise band and egg inside of it in motion. The egg goes with the momentum of the rubber band, the rubber band goes with the momentum of the box, and the box goes with the momentum of the swinging pendulum. I built my device to endure an inelastic collision, which is when two bodies collide and one or more object is deformed after impact. I designed my project so that the siding hopefully does not become damaged at all- but in reality, even if you do not see it, the siding and/or the pendulum is still becoming “deformed” after the impact force of the pendulum coming down and hitting my device. Throughout an inelastic collision deformation increases the time of speed and kinetic energy is not conserved; however, momentum is conserved, meaning that the total amount of momentum of the object is the same before and after the collision. My device should not encounter too much damage after impact, it should just go along with the momentum of the pendulum, letting the eggs move freely within the