Egg Drop

As a way to observe momentum, my classmates were divided into groups that had to drop eggs without breaking them as they landed on either the road or the sidewalk. In order to prevent the egg from being harmed, my group used three car sponges, a rubber band, and rope to enclose it. A hole was cut in the middle sponge as a place for the egg. On Wednesday, one of my group members dropped it from the designated area and I retrieved it from the road. A few moments later, I discovered that my group's egg survived its fall. Basically, the egg did not crack because its enclosure increased its contact time with the road. As a result, the average force on the egg decreased because the sponges absorbed some of the egg's force.