“3, 2, 1 ...” Egg dropping to some is a simplistic engineering challenge that students have to do. The goal is to have Humpty Dumpty sit on his wall without the angst of sunny side up. If you give orientation, transfer of energy, and rule workarounds their own due consideration you will find the key to warrant a successful drop.
One of the most important things to do is to orient the top of the egg ( the more gradient side) towards the ground. This is important because the egg has a much lower chance of sunny side down if oriented in this manner. This might be a hard variable to control unless you know the applicable principles of drag and weight. If you want to orient the egg in such a way to have a lower chance of sunnyside up, you can increase the surface area at the bottom of the contraption (or the top in flight). This is so the center of drag is higher than the center of mass.
Another fundamental of the humble egg drop is to have no direct force acting on the egg. Say you taped a bunch of straws by the end directory to the egg; this will mean that when the other side of the straw hits the ground the energy is transferred through the straw plastic and into the prone egg. To prevent impaling your egg have a geometric structure around the egg with no direct points to impale the egg on.
One of the hardest things to work around is the rules and regulations. Some contests prohibit parachutes (one thing to raise the center of drag). One of the workarounds for this is to have a parachute but not hang by strings, like putting a bowl on the end of the contraption. Or attach it directly to the egg dropper so that it is considered part of the egg dropper instead of a parachute.
“...Smack…It’s good.”
When your build is in compliance with the three principles of orientation, transfer of energy, and rule work arounds, Humpty Dumpty lives to see another day. The bottom line is even if you follow the three main rules perfectly you might be overlooking the main idea of the humble egg drop: be creative and have a buoyant time.
-Cooper R.
I like that you pull the reader in, and that people can connect to your writing about the egg drop because we did it in school. I also like the figurative language and humor you include in your writing. Cooper says, “The goal is to have humpty dumpty sit on his wall without the angst of sunny side up.” I like how your figurative language included humor and mature vocabulary. Using figurative language with humor and mature vocabulary really makes reading enjoyable and it makes me be able to picture what is going on in the writing.
ReplyDeleteI like how you grabbed the reader in the beginning; you jumped right into the way the egg should be placed before dropping. You thoroughly stated each of the three principles of orientation. I really like the way you explain egg dropping, you tell me how you do it while saying it in a way I can understand and visualize how egg dropping actually works. Especially by explaining it as humpty dumpty, “The goal is to have Humpty Dumpty sit on his wall without the angst of sunny side up” Your work is very advanced; you use quite a bit of figurative language, meanwhile still making it understandable for the reader. You also told me that egg dropping is difficult to do, I like how you tell the reader the exact ways to do it for it to be successful as well as things that are difficult about the hobby. I did an egg drop in 5th grade, this information could have been very useful for my experiment. Egg dropping is a very unique hobby, and is very interesting to read about. Awesome job cooper!!!
ReplyDeleteI thought that you did very well with your vocabulary, some examples are “the more gradient side…” and “the applicable principles…” Your message “Be creative and have a buoyant time.” is a funny play on words. Buoyant is a science term and is also another word for happy. I thought this was humorous. Your essay was well written and I enjoyed it. The central idea, being creative was perfect for this essay.
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ReplyDeleteI can relate to this because I remember doing the same thing back in 5th grade; doing this at first was stressful because as well as all of the rules amongst what we had to deal with, but also having an egg not crack. One quote that I can definitely remember is, “ One of the hardest things to work around is the rules and regulations.” For which I remember as well as everyone listened to the list of rules.