This Is For My Project. How Can You Protect An Egg That Is Going To Fall Down A Three Story Building?

Dropping an egg and trying to save it from breaking is often an exercise conducted to explain various things like how to work in a team and to highlight things like unity, effective management and brainstorming for a common purpose. In this exercise the students put together in a team has to save the egg dropped from a predetermined height from breaking.

There are some ways of doing this. One of them is to create as oft ground where the egg is falling so that the fall is cushioned in a soft place and the egg remains intact. Another method is to let the egg fall through a sheet with a hole which again saves the egg from breaking. The second method is based on the theory of gravity and Newton's 1st law of motion. The egg doesn't break in the second situation because of the effect of the sheet on the acceleration of the egg.

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If I remember correctly, this is something that has been explored in a previous episode of MythBusters. I can't recall what happened exactly, so maybe someone else can help me out there. But as far as the project in concerned, it really depends on what materials you are provided, and what you are allowed to do. In other words, you basically have to be given a scope within which you are allowed to carry out this project.

I agree with the answer that there are two ways to solve the problem. The first involves cushioning the fall, either the surface the egg will land on, or by wrapping the egg in some material. The second component is reducing the acceleration of the fall, either by some parachute device. In combination, the egg should have the greatest protection from the fall.

You can simulate the forces on the egg, and then try out your solutions before dropping the egg from the height. If your simulation was accurate, then the results from an actual drop should reflect this.

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