How to drop an egg without it breaking from a balcony?
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Jump with it.  It may break, but you'll never know.
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I had to do this twice, and I did the same thing both times and was very successful. Fill a cardboard box with cotton balls, take your egg and put in a plastic bag, then put that in another bag, that in another, and that in another several times. Put the egg in the box, and put some more cotton balls on the top of it to protect all sides of it. Duct tape shut.
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Gently place egg in water...observe it floating.
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Actually, you might find that some water may pass into the egg during the cooking process by Osmosis. Google or wikipedia this to find out how it works.\nIt will probably be only a tiny change though.
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It doesn't say that the egg has to land on the concrete pavement!  Only that it is dropped 5 feet above a concrete pavement!  So I suppose you could have 5 feet of mattresses and lift the egg up about an inch or so and drop it down onto the mattresses, so that it was actually being dropped "5 feet above a concrete pavement without it breaking and without catching it"!\n\nBasically a play on words as this is:\n\nJUMP TABLES: Bet a bunch of friends that you can put three tables together, take your shoes and socks off and jump over them. They'll be anxious to bet that you can't. Take the bet money in hand then proceed to push the three tables together, take off your shoes and socks and jump over the shoes and socks. Then pick up your stuff and run as fast as you can!\n\nOr (with props the below):\n\nI would go with this: "The winning entry used "Rice Krispies" breakfast cereal in sandwich bags to enclose their egg."\n\n"Our technical support dept received the following question about dropping eggs:\n"I have been searching your web pages trying to find out how I can drop a regular raw egg off a roof without it breaking. Years ago I did this in a physics class, but cannot remember what I did. There is nothing in your web pages regarding this. My 7 yr. old grandson and I would like to do it. Could you help ?"\n\nNormally we can only answer questions related to our products, but we felt this question deserved a reply. To get a broad range of replies we asked the readers of our e-mail newsletter for help. \nSome of the answers we received\nGet an egg-eating snake, give it the egg and wait until the egg is about half way down the snake, then fit the snake with tail flights (cf a dart), then drop said snake plus egg from bridge etc.. The front of the snake will act as a crumple zone, thereby protecting the egg (makes a mess of the snake, but that is outside the parameters of the experiment) Then cut open the snake and remove the egg (snake already deceased, so this is no longer an ethical problem)\n\nIts really quite simple- can't imagine how he's forgotten that he dropped it while it was still inside the hen! Just make sure it's not a hen with clipped wings-specially if the roof is high...... \n\nTheory has it that, given sufficient height, aerodynamics will cause the egg to align itself to land on the blunter of the two ends. The egg is remarkably strong in this orientation. As long as it falls onto a reasonably forgiving surface, a lawn maybe, it won't break - sometimes!\nSafer bet is for Grandad to drop a hard boiled one and palm his stunned Grandson a raw one. \n\nI recently dropped an egg from a roof-top and was able to achieve a drop of some 15 metres without the egg breaking. How? The roof was 16 metres from the ground. It was that last metre that always did the damage.\n\nHold the egg carefully in your hands and jump off the roof. \nPut the egg in the middle of a 1 foot square styrene block. \nTake the roof off, sit it on the ground and roll the egg of the edge of the roof next to the ground. \nImmerse the egg in liquid nitrogen first \nFit the egg with a parachute. \n\nIt's really very simple, the clue is to spread all the force during the retardation phase (landing) on the COMPLETE surface of the egg. In this way, the resulting (vector) forces will be zero. In other words: The forces will "become a pressure" instead. And, since the egg may be compared to a pressure vessel (the surface is curved and can thus take really a lot of pressure before breaking) the egg will not break if you put it in strong bottle filled with water before dropping it!\n\nThis is the classical solution to the problem. I have never worked it out myself but it should work as long as the bottle itself is strong enough (do a test by dropping the bottle filled with just water before doing the test in front of an audience).\n\ncenter the egg in a nylon stocking. \nstretch
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Build a mini trebuchet!  Build a mini trebuchet!\nGive egg LOTS and LOTS of padding!
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First you need to find a jar where a hard boiled egg can sit on the opening without falling through. Then drop a few matches in the jar and let them burn out (this is just to heat up the air inside the jar, you can pick the method as long as the air inside the jar gets hot). The, place the egg on the opening. As the air cools it will suck the egg into jar. Also, some oil around the rim of the jar or on the egg will keep the egg surface from tearing.
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Probably dipping the egg in liquid nitrogen for a while would make it so hard it would be nearly unbrakable!
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The Solar System\nHow to Drop an Egg w/o it breaking\nHuman Body
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spill something on it while its on a hanger?
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Just about any method will work as long as the final deceleration is minimized. Depending on the height of the building, wrapping it in three layers of two-inch thick egg-crate foam with an outer layer of one-inch thick ethylfoam should cushion the shock sufficiently.
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Polystyrene egg box.\nDistribute the quarters in the eggcups evenly to avoid capsize.
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if they drop them they* break hehe check ya later ♥\n*(if that wasn't clear to you because i'm weird i mean the eggs would break lol)
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Stand under stepladder\nget friend to drop brick\nouch!\nthis is how it works
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I did this once. It's a bit of a challenge, but works VERY well. Build a "hexagonal" cage around the egg using drinking straws. Try to use smaller straws (girth) as building is much easier. Using hot glue, have the straws criss-cross in such a way to cradle the egg. You should wind up with something almost spherical.
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Well, while I don't want to do your physics project for you (I did this one myself so I know what works and what doesn't), the basic thing you need to consider is not protecting the shell, but reducing the IMPULSE on the shell - you know what IMPULSE is right?\n\nIMPULSE is change in momentum over time:\n\nI = (M_start - M_end) / time\n\nSo say you have a car with a momentum of 2000, and it hits a brick wall, and the collision takes 0.2 seconds.  The impulse on the car is\n\nI = (2000 - 0) / 0.2 = 10000 kg*m/s^2 (which you may recognize as a unit of force, or NEWTON)\n\nSo you might be able to find out what the impulse necessary to break an eggshell is, but I would suggest simply trying to find a method to reduce that impulse.\n\nSo you have two ways to reduce the IMPULSE on the egg:\n\n1.  Reduce the change in momentum.  How do you do that?  Momentum is mass X velocity, so since the egg's mass is probably fixed, you would want to reduce the falling velocity of the egg - think parachute or some other method of 'floating' so it doesn't fall at full speed.\n\n2.  Increase the amount of time it takes for the egg to hit the ground.  This may sound hard to do, but think about something like falling through soft cotton stuffing - the egg will move through the stuffing, slowing down as it does, and hopefully if you design it right, the egg will stop sliding through the stuffing before it hits the ground.\n\nSo there you go.  When I did this, I used the stuffing approach because our teacher prohibited any kind of floatation devices (essentially ruling out Method 1), but my egg broke because I packed the stuffing too tightly.
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Okay,this information is real!The egg's shell will be partially dissolved and it soon be very soft.Try this to a bone,(any bone recommended chicken bone) and you will get the same results.(It will be so soft that you can tie it into a knot!)