Experiment Name: Egg Drop Experiment
Objective: To design a device that can prevent an egg from breaking when dropped from a height of two meters.
Materials: Egg, paper, glue
Procedure:
In the first experiment, I designed a device that used several sheets of paper to protect the egg. However, the device was unable to land smoothly during the drop, causing the egg to break. Upon analysis, I realized that the four legs at the bottom of the device were not stable enough, and the parachute was too small to slow down the fall.
To address the problems encountered in the first experiment, I made the following improvements:
First, I designed a larger parachute that provided better deceleration. Second, I created a cube to hold the egg. Each face of the cube contained two cylinders to absorb the impact force. To ensure that the device would not come into contact with the ground at any angle, I added paper support sticks to the eight corners of the cube, and I tilted these sticks at diagonal angles to make the entire device more stable.
Results and Conclusion: In this experiment, I dropped the egg from a height of two meters and successfully protected it with the designed device. The egg did not break. Therefore, I can conclude that the device successfully protected the egg from damage caused by the fall.