Egg Drop Lab

During class we did an egg drop lab. The objective of this lab was to make an object to protect an egg from a four story building drop. The rules were that we could not use parachutes and that we could not put anything on the ground level to land on. What I did for my design was to use a juice carton as the main capsule. In that was another capsule holding the egg, which was surrounded in cotton. On the bottom half of the carton was cut slits so that when it hid the ground, it would collapse and increase the impact time. On the bottom of that was a taped juice can (full). this was so the center of gravity was on the bottom and would drop straight. Our design did not work, this was because the object was too heavy and it did not the juice carton did not collapse enough. this could have been solved by having a bigger surface area and making something to collapse more.