Does anyone have any tips for an egg drop competition? The egg is dropped from 25 feet.?
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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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In theory, it will never stop, so I'll assume that when it bounces less than 1 mm it is finished.  Total distance travelled will be 26.99221155 meters.  Start with the 3 m drop and add the 2.4 m bounce and drop and continue the sequence until the bounce is less than 1 mm.  Here's my spread sheet:\n\n3000----------3000\n2400----------7800\n1920---------11640\n153614712\n1228.817169.6\n983.0419135.68\n786.43220708.544\n629.145621966.8352\n503.3164822973.46816\n402.65318423778.77453\n322.122547224423.01962\n257.698037824938.4157\n206.158430225350.73256\n164.926744225680.58605\n131.941395325944.46884\n105.553116326155.57507\n84.4424930126324.46006\n67.5539944126459.56804\n54.0431955326567.65444\n43.2345564226654.12355\n34.5876451426723.29884\n27.6701161126778.63907\n22.1360928926822.91126\n17.7088743126858.32901\n14.1670994526886.6632\n11.3336795626909.33056\n9.06694364726927.46445\n7.25355491826941.97156\n5.80284393426953.57725\n4.64227514726962.8618\n3.71382011826970.28944\n2.97105609426976.23155\n2.37684487526980.98524\n1.9014759 ------------26984.78819\n1.52118072 -----------26987.83055\n1.216944576----------26990.26444\n0.973555661----------26992.21155\nOk, Excel columns don't work well when copied here, so I've added spaces to a few entries at the top and bottom.\n\nGuess spaces didn't work either.  Maybe the dashes will stay.
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You can do anything for fifteen minutes. Set an egg timer, whatever, and do the thing for fifteen minutes. The trick is here, is to STOP after your time is up. Then move on and take a break or do something else for another fifteen minutes until you can come back to it.\nOr, only do fifteen minutes a day. Little by little you'll chip away at it, you'll have more energy for it, AND most importantly, it'll keep you in the process. More will sink in or be integrated this way than in one big effort. \nGood luck!
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I ship chicken and quail hatching eggs and they go through the USPS Mail, so they may as well go through the same thing! I wrap the eggs individually in bubble wrap and secure them in the shipping box so that they cannot move side to side. If you have a choice, put the pointed end down, that will help, too! If I can get a package of 16 past the post office, you can get one for your project! Good luck.
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The simple answer is to have a mechanism for absorbing the impact of the fall. What to build depends on what materials you are restricted to.\n\nThere are several ways to go about it. Design a super-structure (the outside part) that crumples when hit. Suspending the egg is also a great idea (as was already suggested) If you can't or don't want to use a sock or stocking, using some kind of thick substance like gelatin would work well. Parachutes also work very nicely, I've seen some cool ones that worked like helicopters, spinning to slow down the descent. If you want a better answer I suggest posting whether you are restricted to certain materials.
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i dunno.\n\nbut here's my $.02....\n\ndont' shoot at out of range birds.\n\ndon't shoot at birds that will fall in an area you can't find/retrieve them.\n\nmake every effort to retrieve them.\n\ntreat the game with respect.\n\ndon't set up close to another party.\n\ndon't call at birds another party is working.\n\nif you can't blow a call, don't call.\n\nlearn how to shoot your gun accurately, and stay withing your skill limits.\n\nuse the proper shell and choke for the conditions.\n\npick up your trash.\n\nencourage other people to try this sport.\n\ndon't shoot the hens.\n\ndon't go into the marsh 30 minutes before legal shooting time and try to set up.  other people have already done this several hours earlier.\n\nkeep your dog under control.\n\nkeep your cell phone on silent/vibrate mode.\n\ngive back to the resources.\n\nthat's all i can think of for now, but there is more.
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you distance them for the area and the current. i would use and egg sinker as it will be heavier and will have less drag on the current. i would do egg on top about two feet and then the bobber and then about a foot or two and then the hook so your bait will float in the current. i would also use a leader depending on where you are. and get some good knots that you can tie. for the egg sinker its simple run a loop of line through the eye and then pull it around the weight to secure it a little it will make a small cinch knot that can be taken out at anytime. the others you may want to get a book or look online for fishing knots
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hard boil your egg.  :)
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Balancing an egg on end at the equinoxes is pure baloney!\n\nhttp://www.badastronomy.com/bad/misc/egg_spin.html#badegg
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Totally, have fun watching the ball drop!:)
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This sounds sort of like a science project our class did when I was in 8th grade.  We didn't THROW the eggs, but dropped them from the top of the football bleachers to the ground below.  Each student had to come up with their own way, and were graded according to how well they did.  If you're THROWING the egg, then my idea won't help, but if you're dropping it, it protected my egg and earned me an A+ for egg-survivibilty and creativity.\n\nI took a small container of acne wipes (like clearsil or Oxy Pads, but I used the Avon brand pads), emptied it out, and cut a hole in the lid just big enough for a cut-out from a styrofoam egg package to stick out on top.  (Just the same that ONE egg sits on.)  This made a "helmet" for my egg to poke through the top.  Then I lined the bottom of the container with fluffy cotton balls so the egg sat in there nice and cozy.  If there is room to move, it will be more likely to break.\n\nNext I filled up several ballons with helium and attached them to the container, all around in a circle so I will float down gently without spinning or turning upside down.  Can't remember how many it took, but just enough so it floats down SLOWLY, not not so many that it will float away!  I think I found out how many it took to make it float, then minus one.  On the day we dropped the eggs, mine was one of the few survivors, floating gracefully down.  When I retrieved it, I just unscrewed the lid and there was my egg, safe and sound.  :)\n\nOh, and 3 guys tried stuffing it in a pillow, but they all went SPLAT.  So that's not a good way, from what I've witnessed at least.\n\nGood luck, and I hope this helped!
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ok when your doing one make sure your feet are in the right place,put your hand(fingertips) on the ground.your feet should be in the middle and on the tale.push down on the tail while jumping your fingertips will come off the ground.while in the air the firt on the tail slides back gives the board a little nudge so it flips.then quickly slide your foot back on the tale but right on the end.make sure both feet are on.then your board will drop down and you keep your balanece.that is a tip and you can think about something like if i land these ill get 1 million dollars or somethin on the lind.i hope this helps.oh yea yuo can practice in a pool,trampiline,or bed.thats what i did when i first learn how to do one now i can do them naturally.have a nice day
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fill water balloons with different amounts of water and drop them at the same height to see if they fall differently.  =)
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It is an exercise in elementary calculus to show that (ignoring air resistance) the elevation angle for maximum distance is 45 degrees.  The vertical velocity of the egg will be zero at the peak height, and will increase as v = gt^2/2 until it hits the ground.  Energy is conserved, so the vertical velocity when it strikes the ground will match the vertical velocity with which it was launched, and the horizontal velocity will be constant.   This is enough data to solve the whole thing, but there is a shortcut: in the parabolic path at issue, it is always true that the peak height is 1/4 of the horizontal distance.  Hence, the peak height here is 24.225 meters, and that makes it trivial to compute the time and hence the velocity.
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Mythbusters did this using a paper cone weighted at the tip so it fell 'point down'.  \n\nOn impact the cone tip will crush dissipating the energy.  Foam (particularly shredded) or other padding around the egg will stop the egg breaking when the cone falls over after impact.\n\nRemember the point is to dissipate the energy not just stop the egg hitting something hard - simple but effective.
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increase the drop distance.\nthe further you let it fall before stopping the longer it will take, or you could try an updraft
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Wrap in bubble wrap and put in a tube or a box thats how i did it.  it survived a 30 foot fall.