Eggpolo 6 Research Paper
Our egg drop project that we named Eggpolo 6 was unsuccessful. During the drop, the two forces gravity and air resistance, or fluid friction, will act on the Mars lander. Gravity will be pulling the lander down towards the center of the Earth. But fluid friction will be pushing the Mars lander up in the air and slowing the lander down before it hits the ground. When it hit the ground the Eggpollo 6 gave the ground an action force. The ground gave a reaction force causing the Eggpollo 6 to bounce up after it hit the ground. Action forces and reaction forces are related because they are natural opposites and they don't cancel each other out because they are acting on different objects. During the drop, before it hit the ground, the potential
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Kinetic energy is when the object, the egg in this case, is in motion. On the other hand potential energy is when the object, again the egg in this case, Potential energy is the stored energy of an object, such as gravitational potential energy which depends on the mass and the height the object is at. In the egg drop we were hoping that the Eggpollo 6 would absorb the energy of impact, which would transfer the energy away from the egg and cause the Eggpollo 6 to protect the egg from breaking. The straws helped absorb the impact by bending. The toothpicks helped absorb the impact by stopping the straws from bending too much stopping the Eggpollo 6 from compressing too much. If I could do the drop again I would make the project as bare as possible for the mass requirement. But not so bare that there is almost no protection. I would put an egg in a small chamber just big enough for the egg to fit in made of straws and toothpicks in the straws hot glued the openings on both side of the straws then at one end of the chamber put straws on the sides going out at as close you can get to a 45° angle. At the end of the straws put a box on it at hot glue it to the
Kinetic energy is when the object, the egg in this case, is in motion. On the other hand potential energy is when the object, again the egg in this case, Potential energy is the stored energy of an object, such as gravitational potential energy which depends on the mass and the height the object is at. In the egg drop we were hoping that the Eggpollo 6 would absorb the energy of impact, which would transfer the energy away from the egg and cause the Eggpollo 6 to protect the egg from breaking. The straws helped absorb the impact by bending. The toothpicks helped absorb the impact by stopping the straws from bending too much stopping the Eggpollo 6 from compressing too much. If I could do the drop again I would make the project as bare as possible for the mass requirement. But not so bare that there is almost no protection. I would put an egg in a small chamber just big enough for the egg to fit in made of straws and toothpicks in the straws hot glued the openings on both side of the straws then at one end of the chamber put straws on the sides going out at as close you can get to a 45° angle. At the end of the straws put a box on it at hot glue it to the