How do you protect an egg from a high drop?

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 an unbreakable egg drop?

There are three basic ways to increase the likelihood of safely dropping an egg:

1. Slow down the descent speed.
2. Cushion the egg so that something other than the egg itself absorbs the impact of landing.
3. Orient the egg so that it lands on the strongest part of the shell.

Which side of the egg is stronger?

The egg is strongest at the top and the bottom (or at the highest point of the arch). That’s why the egg doesn’t break when you add pressure to both ends. The curved form of the shell also distributes pressure evenly all over the shell rather than concentrating it at any one point.

How do you drop an egg without breaking it using paper?

Use cereal.

1. Wrap the egg around with wet paper towels.
2. Place the egg in one plastic bag and surround it with a puffed rice cereal.
3. Fill four other small bags with the same cereal but do not put any eggs inside.
4. Place all the bags inside of a larger resealable bag.

Can you crack an egg in your arm?

It sounds easy… but can you break the egg? Eggs are amazingly strong despite their reputation for being so fragile. An egg can withstand nearly your entire strength as you try to squeeze it. There’s not even a crack!

Can you stand on an egg without it breaking?

If you pick an egg up and squeeze it as hard as you can with your bare hands, it probably won’t break, thanks to its arched shape. When you stand barefoot on a carton of eggs, your foot is big enough to spread the pressure of your weight around to all of the eggs, and their arched structure keeps them from breaking.

Can an egg survive a drop without cracking?

There is nothing like adding an element of danger to get kids excited about physics. The goal is simple: an egg surviving a drop without cracking. The challenge is in developing a device that will help the egg survive better than when Humpty Dumpty took his historic fall off the wall.

How do you keep an egg from falling on the ground?

Stake the sheet at least 1 foot (30.5 cm) above the ground. When you drop the egg, make sure that it lands as close to the center of the sheet as possible. Similarly, you could also give the egg a cushion to fall into instead of a net. The principle at work here is the same.

How do you defrost an egg without dropping it?

Fruit is another option. Use grapes, cherry tomatoes or orange wedges between the egg and the side of the box or container. The fluid-filled cells work in a similar way to the air-filled bladders of bubble wrap. Consider that the egg must drop but is not required to hit the ground.

How do you teach kids to drop eggs?

(Our restriction was nothing motorized.) Step one: Ask kids to think about the egg drop process, from the height the egg will be dropped, to motion, velocity, momentum, deceleration, and force. If the egg is moving fast, how will the design help slow the fall or cushion the impact?