Ready for the drop!



Egg Drop

On competition day, our container worked and the egg did not crack. However, the box did not land on the right side but the egg still did not crack from the five meter fall. When building our container, the restriction we found the hardest to work around was the size limitation. It was tempting to make the container larger in order to add more padding to help cushion the egg.

The most effective part of the design was the smaller box inside the larger box. We did this because when the outside box hits the ground, the inside box can still move a bit and cushion the impact of hitting the ground.

If we were able to change our design, we would change that the box had to land on a certain side. The egg did not break when the box landed on the right side but we did not know for sure that it would not.
If two raw eggs were to be carried by the container, we would put two of the smaller boxes inside the larger box. This would still allow for the padding and cushion but would hold two eggs instead of only one.

Egg Drop Test Day

Yesterday was the test day for the egg drop challenge. Our container for the egg consists of styrofoam bowls lined with cotton balls that is inside a cardboard box with padding in the bottom of the box. The padding in the bottom of the box helps cushion the styrofoam bowls when the box hits the floor. On test day the egg did not crack the first time but did crack on the second drop. However, on the second drop the box hit the railings on the way down the stairwell and did not land on the right side. Some changes we might make include adding more padding to the outside of the container. 

Day 2

We started off today's class with a video expressing the dangers of posting content online. Then, followed the steps to add the location gadget to our blog. With this gadget we are able to see how many views our blog receives and the location where it was viewed. We continued to finish up our blogs and are now going to learn how to comment on other classmates blogs.

Today in physics class, we spent the period setting up and experimenting with our blogs. We added gadgets which had to include followers, archive, and then any others that we preferred such as a calendar. Then we spent the rest of the class visiting other classmates blogs and setting it up so we are following them.