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We are doing an egg drop contest tomorrow with our physics students.  I
agree with what Donald has to say, but sometimes you don't need a
definitive answer.  Sometimes we just want to use a little of our
knowledge to get first approximation answers.  One of the events in our
Physics Olympics is a quick construction.  One of the quick constructions
is to have a group of students take a single sheet of paper and a few cm
of tape and design a package that will allow the egg to survive.
Hopefully they will think about increasing delta t.  Maybe they will be
lucky and the egg will have a strong shell.  One thing I can count on is
that they will have a little fun with physics.

With no apologies
Alan Gibson
Rochester Adams HS

PS We now have over 60% of our students taking physics.  Unfortunately
all complain about the work load ;-)


On Wed, 3 May 1995, Donald E. Simanek wrote:

> Several things still bother me about the instructional value of the egg
> drop in a physics class.
>
> On Wed, 3 May 1995, Richard Bowman wrote:

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> anyone done it and published it.
>
>         -- Donald
>