Egg Drop Concepts

Why can adding a parachute lower the chances that your egg can break?

• Adding a parachute causes my device to fall faster, creating more kinetic energy.

• Adding a parachute causes my parachute to fall faster, decreasing kinetic energy.

• Adding a parachute causes my parachute to fall at a slower speed, decreasing kinetic energy..

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Why do eggs break when they land on concrete?

• The egg's kinetic energy cannot pass through concrete, so i passes through the egg, causing it to break.

• The egg is harder than the concrete

• the egg is moving too slowly to bounce

• eggs don't break on concrete

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Thinking back over this experiment, which combination of qualities in a falling device would likely have the best results?

• Heavy, falling fast

• heavy, falling slowly

• light, falling fast

• light, falling slowly

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What force is acting on your device, causing it to fall and build kinetic energy after it is released?

• The wind

• Mr. Phifer

• A push

• Gravity

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Why can adding a parachute help slow your device?

• Parachutes are heavy and small

• Parachutes catch the air, creating resistance and slowing down how fast something falls

• Parachutes won't slow the device

• Parachutes catch the air, causing things to fall faster

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What is the amount of force it takes to fracture a small egg?

• ~44.0 N

• ~13.2 N

• ~4.4 N

• ~28.0 N

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Which of the following variations would increase the force experienced by the egg upon landing? Select all that apply.

• Increase the mass of the egg.

• Decrease the mass of the egg.

• Increase the drop height.

• Decrease the drop height.

• Change the surface to a box of foam.

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What affect does doubling the mass of an egg have upon the force that the egg experience?

• Doubling the mass makes the force twice as large.

• Doubling the mass makes the force one-half as large.

• Doubling the mass makes the force larger, but less than two times larger.

• Doubling the mass seems to have no affect upon the force experienced by the egg

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Pay attention to the time it took for the ▵V to occur. Which statement is true.

• The longer time it takes to change the velocity, the less force the egg will feel

• The longer time it takes to change the velocity, the more force the egg will experience

• The velocity change is not related to the force.

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When a small egg is dropped onto the piece of 1-inch foam, from which height did the egg break entirely? Select all that apply.

• When dropped from 1 meter.

• When dropped from 5 meters.

• When dropped from 10 meters.

• Nonsense! The small egg never broke entirely when dropped onto 1-inch foam.

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