Egg Drop Analasys

Blair, Meg, Isela

We started this experiment with filling a container up with water, and placing a pie tin and toilet paper roll on top of that. Next we placed an egg on top of the toilet paper roll. Our objective was to get the egg into the container without it hitting anything else. We came to the conclusion that in order for this to work, we would have to hit the pie tin hard and quickly. The friction between the pie tin and the container was very little, so the tin moved easily. The gravitational pull on the egg will bring it into the water, but will hang in the air for about a nano second. Our group knows that the egg will not move until we hit it; because Newton's First Law of Inertia states that an object at rest will stay at rest, until acted upon by an outside force. The egg's mass was greater than all the pie tin and toilet paper roll, so they will be hit out of the way of the egg. So, we applied an unbalanced force to the pie tin, causing the egg to go into the water.