Egg Drop Lab

For our egg drop capsule design, we used a bag filled with slightly crumpled paper, the egg was surrounded with a soft nylon foam like material. The nylon foam was used to cushion the egg in the case that it fell over after hitting the ground and was placed inside of our bag filled with crumpled paper. The crumpled paper was used to create a cushion of air that could still withstand the fall of the smaller inner capsule with the egg and foam which increased the contact time for when the bag hit the ground. We tried to make our capsule have a low mass so it would decrease the force that it took our capsule to stop when it brutally slammed into the ground. We also used rocks at the bottom of our capsule to attempt to stabilize our capsule during the fall. Here is a diagram i made trying to illustrate how our device worked.