Science Experiments

Question: Egg Drop Science Experiment?

I need to drop an egg from six meters for a science class project. But unlike most experiments I need to make something to catch the egg as it hits the ground. No flight alterations can be made. The materials I can use are….
8 straws
1 square foot of cardboard
4 medium or small cups
8 medium or small rubberbands
1 meter of masking tape or half meter of duct tape
12 sheets of copy paper
I can do anything with these materials but they are the only things I can use. Any ideas would be great, all mine have sucked or failed so far.

Answer: Arrange the cardboard so that it is shaped like a deep funnel that will direct the egg in a precise direction on landing (the funnel has to have very angled slides so as to not decelerate the egg just yet, as it could dammage it). Right under the funnel exit, arrange a layer of the 12 sheets of copy paper, held out horizontally one above the other at about 2 cm from one another, loosely held up by their edges to a frame made with the straws and other supplies. As the egg will impact the first sheet, it will drag it down, losing a bit of velocity, hitting the second sheet, draggin theis one, and so on. You may have to experiment a little to see if 2 cm gap is the optimal distance that stops the egg without braking it.

Alternatively, you can cut a complex lacy pattern in the copy paper, to turn them in some sort of tear-away stretchy deceleration catch system.

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