Experimental Method:
Find a strong jar with a sealing screw-lid. Or, a rigid can or plastic container would be okay. Carefully slip the fresh egg into this container and completely top it up with water. Seal it with the lid.
Now take a round plastic tub or cardboard carton that will accomodate your jar with some space all round it. Fill this with Rice Krispies and then gently settle your jar into the middle of it, ensuring that it is insulated on all sides by the cereal. Securely close the container.
Eat the left-over Krispies, of course.
Moment of truth:
Drop the doubly contained egg from your helicopter, or whatever. Pray that it doesn't hit a police car. A large, well grassed park would be a wise target area. Grass softens the landing.
Do remember to take out suitable insurance and send out a timely air-raid signal for the benefit of unwitting picnickers and dog walkers!
Hypothesis:
The trick is to spread the force or impulse during a landing or 'retardation' phase onto the entire surface of the egg. In this way, the resulting vector force on the egg will be zero. In other words, any vector force will become evenly distributed into an all-round pressure instead. Although an egg is not perfectly spherical, its shell is curved and is designed to take a great deal of pressure before collapsing.
If there is any prohibitive size or weight limit, use a lighter and/or smaller vessel for the water and egg: that inner vessel must have good rigidity.
Or, swap the external carton/tub for a plastic bag. Krispies are very light and will progressively collapse on impact, thus reducing any physical impulse or localised shock to the inner content.
The inner vessel could alternatively be lagged using draught excluder tape. But, failing all else, just stick the egg snuggly into the middle of a bag of the breakfast cereal. If you are not fond of raw egg mixed with Krispies and bits of shell, wrap the egg in cling film first.
The density of water makes it quite suitable for an egg-drop experiment because it approximates to the density of a fresh egg which is, thus, well suspended in it. The density of the water may be tweaked if required by dissolving salts into it.
If prefered, wind conditions being not too turbulent, the ready article could be made to fall in one specific orientation by the attachment of opposed dart-like fins and/or by attaching something like a kite tail to the upper end of it.
The hypothesis of dropping an egg could be that the egg will break upon impact with the ground due to gravity and the force exerted on it.
Siemen's egg drop is a experament, where you have to wrap the chicken egg in materails and drop it and hope it doesn't breah.
Egg Drop was created on 2012-01-11.
In my school an "egg drop" is a project where you build a device to catch an egg.
You can find a bouncy egg hypothesis in an experiment investigating how different substances can affect the shell of an egg to make it bouncy. This hypothesis predicts that certain substances, such as vinegar, will weaken the eggshell, allowing it to bounce when dropped from a height.
drop it on a mattress
A good egg drop project could be to see which type of egg falls the quickest (raw egg, boiled egg, and roughly boiled egg which is not quite boile nor raw). Then go onto a high structure, and time how long it takes for each egg to fall. By the way you'll need a partner for the experiment.
Probably not as the melting proceeds the creation of the heat - i.e., the hypothesis has a chicken egg problem.
If The egg soaks in White Vinegar then the White vinegare will make the egg bounce the highest.
You use a Plastic egg
To use gravity in an egg drop experiment, simply drop the egg from a certain height and observe how gravity affects its descent. You can vary the height from which you drop the egg to see how it impacts the egg's landing. Consider using different materials or design structures to protect the egg from the force of gravity upon impact.
One way to drop an egg without breaking it is to use a lot of padding and put the egg in a container.