Week 5
In lab, we discussed the idea of science vs. engineering. We decided science is why things happen and engineering is how we solve science-based problems. We then moved on to experiment dropping an egg into a bowl filled with possible playground materials to discover what is safe and what is not. My group started with a layer of saran wrap on the bottom covered with 1/2 sand then 1/2 straw.
We found that there was too much bounce from 1 meter and it would not be safe enough.
We then replaced the straw with foam pellets to prevent bounce.
Once we found that the bounce was reduced, we tried the egg. Since the egg weighed less than the golf ball we were experimenting with, we decided to create an indent in the pellets to keep the egg from bouncing or rolling out.
Our findings were that there must be a dense but soft material underneath a soft and light layer. The sand was the soft dense material and the foam pellet layer was soft and light, catching the fall.
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