The Great Egg Drop Week 1

For the next three weeks, our class has divided into teams representing various countries responsible for creating a contraption that can catch eggs from a height greater to or less than 17 feet.

The instructions for the project can be found here and the instructions for the report can be found here.

The first week is designated to complete the beginning of the design process:
Problem Definition
Defining Criteria
Idea Generation

Megan and I are a team representing Japan.

Figure 1: Problem definition, criteria, and the beginning calculations of the physics behind the Egg Drop (work in progress, will become more specific with further understanding)

Figure 2: Top view of our Egg Drop design. The second sketch shows scattered layers of tape hammocks.

Figure 3: The side or full view of our design with two different options for the basket located in the middle of the contraption responsible for catching the egg (the resting place).

 Throughout our design process, we tried to focus on minimizing our materials and maximizing our understanding of the physics and calculations behind the performance of the egg drop.

We used the following online picture as a basis for our egg drop design:

Inspiration for egg drop

We used the following links to help guide our mathematical understanding:

Acceleration

Kinetic and Potential Energy

Kinetic energy and potential energy equation

Megan and I work well as a team and are looking forward to the remaining weeks of preparing for the competition!