Egg Drop Analysis (Mackenzie & Kelsey)

For this experiment, we had a container of water (filled about 3/4 the way full), a pie tin on top of that, an empty toilet paper roll on top of that, and a heavy egg laying horizontally on top of that. Our task was to get the egg in the water. We brought a force to the pie tin to push it off of the top of the container, knocking the toilet paper roll over and letting the egg roll off into the water. Isaac Newton's 1st Law of Inertia states something along the lines of, "An object in motion stays in motion and an object at rest tends to stay at rest unless an unbalanced outside force acts upon it." Here in this project, we brought a force to an object at rest (the pie tin), which caused the egg and the toilet paper roll to move. If we hit the pie tin with enough force, it will slide off and knock the roll over, sending the egg into the water. When the egg hit the water, the water caught it and became the outside force to stop it from moving.