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Article #221Re: Egg drop contest
From: gibson
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 00:00
Date: Tue, 02 May 1995 00:00
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Peanut Butter and Lard work as well. We have even gone as small as 10x10cm Al Rochester Adams Rochester MI On Tue, 2 May 1995, Jay Cutler wrote: > Yesterday in a ninth grade high school class we held a contest on "HOW > HIGH AND HOW MANY TIMES AND HOW HARD AN EGG COULD BE DROPPED IN A PACKAGE > SMALLER THAN 20 CM X 20 CM X20CM." > I thought we were studing Newton's second law. Now I'm not so sure. The > package that did by far the best was a container filled with mud packed > around the egg. > > Why does the egg survive the mud package better than foam, popcorn, > saltwater, and hey! What was the person trying when they put the egg into > a container of saltwater? >
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 16cfd8,a9f7208879c312ea X-Google-Attributes: gid16cfd8,public From: gibson <gibson@OAKLAND.EDU> Subject: Re: Egg drop contest Date: 1995/05/02 Message-ID: <Pine.3.89.9505022027.D14970-0100000@vela.acs.oakland.edu> X-Deja-AN: 101921973 sender: Sharing resources for high school physics <PHYSHARE@PSUVM.PSU.EDU> comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: bit.listserv.physhare