Physics Egg Drop Project

The egg drop project we did involved many physics principles. One of them was air resistance, which happened because the egg dropped and it accelerated, while the velocity increased. Then the resistance of the air to the egg box motion also increased, which means the upward force of air resistance balances the downward force of gravity, so the egg box dropped at a constant speed. We attached balloons to the box we made in order for the box to pass through the air while softly landing. We believe that by attaching the balloons it would have less air resistance so the box will fall quickly. Free fall is when an object falls with a constant acceleration, our egg dropped with a constant acceleration but the velocity changed because it ended up moving directions. In our box we made like a small nest so when the box was dropped the egg would have a more secure wall so it would cause less force on the egg, which is way how we derived impulse in our project. Momentum is derived by multiplying the mass times the velocity of an object. More mass, means more momentum, so we didn't want too much …show more content…
I had to hold my partner really hard because I couldn’t stand seeing people's eggs break. I lost fate, right when the first person's egg broke, seeing all that gooey yolk all over the place made me want to cry. When it was finally, our turn I remember my heart beating really fast and when we quickly rushed to open it, I almost cried my eyes out. We ended up stuffing more cotton balls inside the box and on the second time I was rushing to open it I cut my finger really bad with the scissors. I was happy that our egg didn’t break but really sad that I cut my finger and my friend had to hold my finger cause I couldn't stand looking at it. Take my advice; when rushing to open your project be careful don’t be too slow and not too fast but make sure your safe and don’t flip out you’ll be fine, the egg breaks not