Egg Drop

[Anonymous No.5538603]

TL;DR
Egg drop in my senior year physics class. Probably going to do a cone made out of 1-2 pieces of paper, with the third ripped up inside for cushioning, with the egg ontop of the shredded paper. Seems like it will work. Girls in my class have already destroyed ~10 eggs because they really want to make this butterfly hot air-balloon design. It's retarded.

Anyway, just wanted Sci's thoughts. If someone posts a better idea, or an idea that is crazy enough to work, i'll do it and post pics later.

[Anonymous No.5538613]

wow. why such limited materials....maybe the teacher really likes seeing broken e ggs...

[Anonymous No.5538620]

Paper rotating parachute

Similar to this design, but built to rotate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ScSkPdgaEI

[Anonymous No.5538623]

>>5538613
yeah I agree. I guess it's so we have more of a challenge, or think harder or something. Also, I'll try to answer some questions now, if any, becuase I need to go somewhere in ~10 mins.

[Anonymous No.5538628]

>>5538623
how accurate will the drop be?

[Anonymous No.5538642]

>>5538628
Accurate?
We are just standing on our lab tables, holding our contraption near the ceiling, and dropping it straight down to the ground. No real accuracy problem lol.

[Anonymous No.5538645]

>>5538620
That's actually clever. Only problem is, the egg is quite heavy, so I would need to make a big ass wing with my 3 sheets of paper.

[Anonymous No.5538646]

1. Three origami boxes taped together with the egg taped on top, using the extra paper (origami boxes use square sheets) as streamers to make sure the boxes land first.

2. a sharp cone pointing down, with the egg at the base, hanging from a parachute cone.

[Anonymous No.5538661]

>>5538646
i want to try the box thing. Now I need to figure out how to make an origami box lol.

[Anonymous No.5538669]

>>5538646

#1 is a pretty neat idea. what would be a good way to increase the drag the streamers apply?

[Anonymous No.5538674]

>>5538669
Only thing I think would work would be cutting many little frays in each streamer to make it much less aerodynamic, and cause more drag.
Anyway I'll be back later guys, thanks for the ideas!
<3

[Anonymous No.5538685]

>>5538646
what about folding little tetrahedrons, or would that be too hard to stick together?

also, don't forget the tape. you can use the excess tape on the streamers or to streangthen the origami boxes/

[Carbon !5XmfGkN7AQ No.5538700]

>>5538603
put the egg inside of a pillow. If thats too faggy for you make a glider esque vertical stabilized 4 wing egg aircraft.. in an "(H)" shape or just incorporate it in the innards of your cone...cylinder... cone is bad for aerodynamics...unless you want to create an airpocket of instability.

[Anonymous No.5539157]

>>5538700
Man i'm going to need to make some blueprints but I can MAYBE see this working, i'll consider it.
Man, i'm eager to see my classmate's faces when I come in with this elaborate and precise thing while they all chuck their eggs into oblivion.

[Anonymous No.5539183]

Don't get fancy with egg drops.
Just do what UPS does. Shred paper until it's you can get a dense amount. Place egg in middle.

[Anonymous No.5539184]

Build a cylinder, FILL it with black powder, and cover both sides. Make some kind of ignition source. Cradle the egg on top with the third piece of paper, and put on top of the cylinder FILLED with black powder. Have fishing line (so your teacher can't see it) attached and tied through a hole in the bottom piece of paper covering the cylinder. Pull and then ignite. This will give it an unknown force up, and gravity pulling it down. Hope this helps.

[Anonymous No.5539193]

>>5539183
LOL
>>5539184
Oh, makes sense.

[Anonymous No.5539211]

Anyone have a screencap of Carl's 'Pauli Eggsclusion' approach to egg drops?

I could use a good laugh

[Anonymous No.5539546]

>>5539211
Would like to see this too, sounds interesting.

[Anonymous No.5539569]

When I did this at my school, the winning container was literally just crumpled up paper. I don't know how much they used, so it might not be a good strategy for you OP, depending on how well just 3 sheets can protect the egg.

[Anonymous No.5539758]

>>5539211
lol yeah that was good
I'll dump a couple for the sake of balance, which is scientific

[Anonymous No.5539762]

>>5539211

[Anonymous No.5539772]

>>5539211
.captch: cavalry scooby

[Anonymous No.5539783]

>>5539211
,

[Anonymous No.5539789]

>>5539211
If you're into this kind of comedy

Also, this is now a science funny's thread

[Anonymous No.5539794]

>>5539211
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[Anonymous No.5539800]

>>5539794
Speaking of x's...
>>5539772

[Anonymous No.5539801]

>>5539789
Is sarcastic argument to any marginal people a new form of racism approach?

[Anonymous No.5539815]

>>5539211
Never assume X can only be 1 thing

[Anonymous No.5539832]

>>5539801
Sarcastics arguement in the picture goes as far to counter any preconceived racism

To laugh at it for racist reasons, well, Lss(longstoryshort) the point is to maim with blame

Enjoy the wounds! ^_^

Also, Human Behaviorism!

[Anonymous No.5539835]

[Anonymous No.5539841]

Animal Behaviorism!

[Anonymous No.5539845]

Conservative Human behaviorism towards animals in "Where it's okay to be gay"

[Anonymous No.5539859]

>>5538603
Has anyone ever tried building a ramp for this assignment?
You know, so that all the vertical K.E. gets converted to horizontal upon impact and it just rolls down the hall?

I'm curious if this would work.

[Anonymous No.5539860]

Christian Behaviorism on evolution in general!
Or something like that
I'm out, you're all fags for not contributing

I see some nice ripe Bird melon above me so I'm gunna dip into that

[Anonymous No.5539865]

Put the thing in jello ffs

[Anonymous No.5539877]

>mfw when birds gone

[Anonymous No.5539879]

>>5539859
It would have to be nearly perfectly vertical at one side, and gently slope down to almost perfectly horizontal at the other. I don't see why it wouldn't work, but then again, I can only use 3 sheets of paper and 1.5 feet of tape.
Clever idea though, thanks.

[Anonymous No.5540149]

Make somthing that looks like a plane, but it's actually a bomb, and kill your classmates.

[Anonymous No.5542846]

egg drops suck

[Anonymous No.5542872]

I would try a tetrahedron shape from pinched cylinders stuffed with remaining paper

[Anonymous No.5542884]

>>5538603
>being in high school

Pls go

[Anonymous No.5542892]

>>5540149
are you 12?

[Anonymous No.5542943]

>>5539211
/r/ing this, if anyone has it.

[Anonymous No.5545016]

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[Anonymous No.5545026]

>>5545016

[Anonymous No.5545032]

>>5545026
<span class="math">8.112019 \times 10^{19}[/spoiler]