adapted from The Egg Drop: Kimberly Rogers-Fowler, Ball State University

Your design team is to design, build and test a Parachuted vehicle to protect a raw egg from destruction after a drop from a height. Your team will have succeeded if your egg remains whole and does not have a cracked shell (external injury) or a split yoke (internal injury).

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How it can help my egg::

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How it affects my egg:

Image, diagrams, ideas

Image, diagrams, ideas

Instructions:

• Research each topic. Find the required information.
• Replace the images box with diagrams or images that help explain or demonstrate the concept

Useful Links:

Friction

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Gravity

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Definition

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Example:

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How it can help my egg:

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How it can help my egg:

Image, diagrams

Image, diagrams

Instructions:

• Research each topic. Find the required information.
• Replace the images box with diagrams or images that help explain or demonstrate the concept

Testing parachute interactive: NASA

Free Fall Tower Go through Alberta Education if prompted for a sign-in

Attached with:

Parachute is made of

< 20 cm >

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Include:

• Measurements (dimensions)
• Materials
• How things are attached
• Features that reduce speed or add shock absorption

Container is made of

Strings are made of

Attached with:

Payload held with

Length of strings in cm

Shock absorption

Attached with:

Parachute is made of

< cm >

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Include:

• Measurements (dimensions)
• Materials
• How things are attached
• Features that reduce speed or add shock absorption

Container is made of

Strings are made of

Attached with:

Payload held with

Length of strings in cm

Shock absorption

What went well? What didn’t go so well?

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Things that could go wrong:

• Material choice
• Parachute size
• Too small - falls too fast.
• Too big for the load - doesn’t inflate
• Parachute design
• Not symmetrical - doesn’t inflate properly
• Not streamline - unstable descent
• No hole in middle - air escapes out side and makes it lopsided
• Hole too small
• Hole too big
• Hole off to side - whole thing flops
• string/rope length
• Too long - doesn’t inflate fast enough / pick up too much speed
• Too short - parachute doesn’t bulge
• External conditions
• Wind - blows into building, falls apart
• Rain/moisture - materials degrade

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Attached with:

Parachute is made of

< cm >

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Include:

• Measurements (dimensions)
• Materials
• How things are attached
• Features that reduce speed or add shock absorption

Container is made of

Strings are made of

Attached with:

Payload held with

Length of strings in cm

Shock absorption

What went well? What didn’t go so well?

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When the egg dropped,

The reason ...