On the second day of unit 7, we learned more about collisions and momentum. At the start of the day, we observed a car crash by the pool. This fit in perfectly because it was quite a collision. The picture I have is of my cousins car. He crashed it on a rock. The reason the car is so banged up is because the car came to a very sudden stop. If the car was able to come to a more gradual stop, the damage wouldn't have been so bad. Had he hit something like a pile of dirt, or a mound of hay, the impact time would have been increased, causing the car to slow down slower. As we work on the egg drop, we need to take into account the physics behind a crash. The purpose will be to increase the time of contact enough to prevent the egg from looking like my cousins car.
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ReplyDeleteor we need to make the container that holds the egg, end up looking like your cousin's car, so the egg survives
ReplyDeletegreat point, although the car was broken, my cousin was fine.
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