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RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
February 17 2011 03:52 GMT
#41
WAIT Since i can use 7 sheets of paper why not make like 5 cones 4 around the 1 cone with the actual egg in, and use the half a sheet to crupple up and stuff it under the egg to absorb some impact then use the other half to cover up the egg. Actually this is a pretty bad idea -________-
starfries
Profile Blog Joined July 2009
Canada3508 Posts
February 17 2011 03:58 GMT
#42
On February 17 2011 12:46 Impervious wrote:
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On February 17 2011 12:27 starfries wrote:
A cone is a good idea, except you actually want it to hit the ground on the circle face, not on the tip. This is because that when it hits the ground at the tip, it will absorb a bunch of the force, however, it will also tip over when it hits the ground and then smash the egg straight on the ground anyways (or at least transfer a lot of the impact to the egg)..... If you hit with the circle face, it will crumple without tipping, which is exactly what you want it to do.

this is also a good point

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
Profile Blog Joined November 2004
Sexico5880 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-17 04:11:33
February 17 2011 04:09 GMT
#43
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.
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RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
February 17 2011 04:15 GMT
#44
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
RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
February 17 2011 04:21 GMT
#45
I'll go with the cone idea, will update the results tomorrow = P Wish me luck!!
Jonoman92
Profile Blog Joined September 2006
United States9107 Posts
February 17 2011 04:26 GMT
#46
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.
MrRicewife
Profile Blog Joined February 2011
Canada515 Posts
February 17 2011 04:35 GMT
#47


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?
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micronesia
Profile Blog Joined July 2006
United States24761 Posts
February 17 2011 11:04 GMT
#48
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
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
February 17 2011 11:17 GMT
#49
Where's the physics part?
NeoLearner
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Belgium1847 Posts
February 17 2011 11:24 GMT
#50
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
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States4291 Posts
February 17 2011 11:40 GMT
#51
Structural strength is maximized by joints (when you do it a certain way)

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.
Loanshark
Profile Blog Joined December 2008
China3094 Posts
February 17 2011 12:36 GMT
#52
The shape of the egg is such that it requires less force pushing from inside to break the shell than from outside. Good for little chicks trying to poke their way out. This is why if you use an egg to hit another egg, the one in your hand will probably break before the other one.

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.
Profile Blog Joined April 2009
United States5955 Posts
Last Edited: 2011-02-17 20:26:42
February 17 2011 20:25 GMT
#53
On February 17 2011 12:37 MarineHeroSamKhan wrote:
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On February 17 2011 12:28 ZeaL. wrote:
make a cylinder and then put fins on the side that are slanted. Use any extra paper to make a crush zone at the bottom of the cylinder which will cushion the egg. The fins make the thing spin which decelerates and keeps it pointed downwards so that the egg will land on the cushion. Did that like 5 years ago when I had to do this experiment and could do 35m okay.

Edit: If you choose to go the paper route do this.

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
RezChi
Profile Blog Joined January 2010
Canada2368 Posts
February 18 2011 00:56 GMT
#54
Well result update: I got 1.5M but couldn't pass the 2M one with the cone, fucking fell on it's side = (
Anyways thanks guys!~
Blisse
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
Canada3710 Posts
February 18 2011 02:13 GMT
#55
Does it have to land upright on a target, or simply just land?
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