EPTStupid Physics lab/experiment - Page 3
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RezChi
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starfries
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On February 17 2011 12:46 Impervious wrote: Which will be very difficult to accomplish with paper, because of air resistance..... With a straw framework, you won't really have to worry about that. eh it's quite easy to just tape a piece of paper on top to get whatever orientation you want. But now that I think about it the point of the cone will absorb more impact than the base. I'm a bit skeptical about the straws since I've never seen it done myself while most winners used some version of the cone idea. But ~ava sounds like he knows what he's talking about, I'd try that too  honestly 2 meters is quite easy and just about anything reasonable will work. | ||
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Cloud
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RezChi
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On February 17 2011 13:09 Cloud wrote: Uh imo just make 6 balls of paper, tape 4 of them around the egg and 2 of them at each point and then use the 7th sheet to wrap the whole thing. I'm not sure if the 7th sheet is actually big enough to do that, bit this might work | ||
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RezChi
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Jonoman92
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On February 17 2011 11:22 howerpower wrote: Holy shit, I thought physics 2 sucked, THERE IS 9 MORE OF THEM!?!?!?!? Lol this cracked me up. GL OP! I will keep your egg in my prayers. | ||
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MrRicewife
Canada515 Posts
Watch from 8:35 - end. Instead of the straws, roll a couple sheets into 'straws'. This project is terribly easy even without any help - maybe you should drop out of physics if you don't like it? | ||
micronesia
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On February 17 2011 13:35 MrRicewife wrote: This project is terribly easy even without any help - maybe you should drop out of physics if you don't like it? It would be pretty crazy to drop out of physics because of a dumb egg drop experiment which has so little to do with physics lol | ||
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igotmyown
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NeoLearner
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On February 17 2011 11:19 MarineHeroSamKhan wrote: ... to protect one egg that is suppose to be dropped from around 2 meters ... ...Recently won a paper airplane competition to see whose plane can stay in the air the longest... Here is thinking outside of the box: Why not just build that same plane again and put the egg on top of it? We never got to do anything creative like that, our physics experiments were all straight up scientific-method things. Or analyzing water quality and stuff like that. | ||
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igotmyown
United States4291 Posts
http://www.teachersdomain.org/resource/phy03.sci.phys.mfw.bbgeodesic/ If you're going shock absorption, I think the best way would be lots of small triangles. You would have to find a way to cut it so you could get several stacks from each piece of paper and find a way to weave them together, but the advantage would be that you're not limited by the fixed area of each sheet so much as how finely you can cut it. If you want to slow it down, maybe a circular tube so it would loop back into the tube continuously until friction decelerated it, then it would swing up and down like a pendulum until more friction caused it to stop. Not sure how you would support the tube. | ||
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Loanshark
China3094 Posts
You should find a way to incorporate this into your design, but I don't really have much idea how. | ||
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ZeaL.
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On February 17 2011 12:37 MarineHeroSamKhan wrote: Wait so the fins are slanted upwards right? Yeah. Experiment with the angle/size of the fins to see what combination slows it down the most. Edit: I meant 15m lol. 35m would be ridiculous | ||
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RezChi
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Anyways thanks guys!~ | ||
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Blisse
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