- What is this project? Decent? Decedent?
Descent is a fancy word for drop, while decedent in this experiment is the egg.
I’d rather call it the egg drop project, or egg drop challenge.
In applied engineering classes of Grade 10, we made devices that can contain an egg, so that the egg will fall down from a height of 5 meters safely without breaking.
- Surprising news! An esteemed engineering teacher in PRISMS publicly supports wasting food……
This is a quote:
“Eggs are cheap. You’re gonna break a lot of eggs.”
—Mr. Heim
Why does this happen? Is this the distortion of humanity, or loss of morality? We’d stay tuned on this.
- Various Thoughts
The main challenges are harsh, rigorous size restrictions, unreasonably huge acceleration due to gravity, and the formidable perilous height of a whole 5 meters.
Let us see how the eggs are feeling about this.
“……”
Okay, it seems eggs have no disagreements towards sacrificing.
Let’s move on to see different designs.
“Wings”
—to increase air resistance, hence decrease acceleration.
Springs, or “spider legs” at the bottom of the container
—to buffer ground’s reaction force when the container dashes to ground.
Alternative parachute made of 3D-printed materials
—similar to “wings”.
Rings fixed inside containers
—to stop the egg from moving and jumping in it
……
- 20m/s^2
When looking at my first data, I felt so happy to see that the egg’s maximum acceleration is only 20m/s^2, only 20, which is much less than I expected!
But later, Bob found out, in the first drop test’s data, all our designs have the maximum acceleration at 20m/s^2……
Fun fact: Gyro sensors have the maximum acceleration they can measure.
3/31/2022