Egg Dropper
Design and build a device to safely lower an uncooked egg from the height
of a table top to the floor.
Criteria:
– Egg cannot freefall.
– Egg must end up within 300 mm radius circle from the point directly below starting point.
– Egg cannot be cushioned.
– Egg cannot drop into a cushion
– A portion of the egg must be in direct contact with the floor.
– You cannot manually control the decent of the egg (i.e. you start the machine and then it does the work)
Marking:
Unbroken 5
Fine crack 4
Major crack 3
Broken, but retains basic shape 2
Totally smashed 1
Research:
Free fall:
1. the hypothetical fall of a body such that the only force acting upon it is that of gravity.
2. the part of a parachute jump that precedes the opening of the parachute.
http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/free+fall
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