Designing Egg Landing Pad
Your task (with your group) is to design a device that a dropped egg can land on without breaking. The landing pad that will catch the egg that is dropped from the highest height (without breaking the egg) will be the winning design.
Design Limits:
Materials: 10 sheets of paper, 1 meter of tape, 1 Class period of 'build' time
Design consideration: It must be possible to retrieve the egg from the device with out destroying it since the landing pad will be used several times (until the egg breaks).
A well designed landing pad will reduce the force on the egg by extending the time it takes to bring the egg to rest (or change it's momentum to zero).
Impulse (J) is the change in momentum.
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The images above are suggestions for the ways you can use your 10 sheets of paper to extend the stopping time for the egg.
Impulse Videos
These videos explain how impulse affects the change in momentum that you experience as a car accelerates. When the car accelerates at a slower rate, the force applied to change velocity acts over a longer time. Since the force acts over a longer time, the force is less when the rate of acceleration is less.
Your goal in designing your landing pad is to reduce the rate of acceleration so a smaller force acts over a longer time and protects the egg from breaking.
Your goal in designing your landing pad is to reduce the rate of acceleration so a smaller force acts over a longer time and protects the egg from breaking.
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This video does a nice job of explaining IMPULSE as a change in momentum and how IMPULSE relates to forces and time.
This video does a nice job of explaining IMPULSE as a change in momentum and how IMPULSE relates to forces and time.
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