Fall 2015 MTCA Workshop #3

Post date: Dec 4, 2015 6:15:41 PM

Dropping Cell Phones

Presented by

Phil Yasskin

of

Texas A&M University

You work for a cell phone company and are assigned the task of testing a new model of phone protector by dropping a phone from various

floors of a 100 story building to determine the highest floor from which it can be dropped and not break. How can you efficiently answer

this question?