Egg Drop - Make: Video Podcast

his weekend, Bre Pettis shows you a few strategies for keeping an egg safe when thrown off a 4 story building. Paula Kieko breaks down the math and physics for you. If you want to have fun and get smarter, organize an egg drop in your neighborhood!

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[treesonfire118]

fuck the physics lesson 3:59

[almondherring]

THAT'S SO CHEAP. In my high school physics class we have to drop the eggs from a similar height, with NO parachutes, balloons, or cushioning whatsoever, and this must be done with 45-55 grams of material and without taping or enclosing the egg in any way (i.e. if we turn the mechanism upside down, the egg falls out). And it's all because the FIVE-year-old daughter of my physics teacher managed to think of all those ideas. You don't need to take physics to think of the stuff shown here.

[agatha0129]

i am doing the egg drop in mrs diazs class and ill probly use the last ones

[Justal0V]

I'm doing this in class! Can't wait to do it! I'm thinking of doing something like the peanut butter, but I'm gonna use something mor dense.

[AsifSaga]

What Song (Tune) is playing at 1:58 Please

[kjellman96]

BALLSHOT IN YO FACE!!!

[TheAubergineninja]

our teacher is making us use a mousetrap instead of an egg. any ideas?

[SOAHCSOAHCSOAHC]

@almondherring I'd love to see your and some of the other ideas people came up with to fit those criteria! Were there any pictures or videos?

[almondherring]

@yunalee22 Yeah! >8D

[almondherring]

@adiGNR Yeah? Good luck. 8D

I'm a junior in AP Physics right now.

[almondherring]

@MrJabberzz It would fall out if spun about a horizontal axis, but not if spun about a vertical axis (which is what I did).

So the idea was that we had to figure out how to stabilize our "egg vehicle"... to make it more challenging, as well as to prevent a mess from being made, which annoyed the janitors in previous years.

[almondherring]

@SOAHCSOAHCSOAHC There are lots of ways of slowing the egg down. We weren't allowed to use parachutes, but we were allowed to build things that made it spin. That way, a lot of the energy the egg has in the beginning (gravitational potential energy) turns into rotational kinetic energy instead of downward... er... linear kinetic energy... (I don't know if that's the proper term for it, but yeah).

I made a propeller, and the thing floated down so slowly~~ it was awesome. :]