Egg+Drop

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This Video shows a part of the actual experiment/ the results of what happened when we rolled the basketball will be in our graph. What we were doing when we rolled the basketball was watching how many centimeters the weights moved before they fell in the plastic box, but 2 of the weights didn't fall in the box one of the weights is the one in the video.

**﻿Egg Drop Experiment**

Today in science class we have started our experiments on Isaac Newton's laws of motion. In my group we were assigned the first law and we chose an experiment called the "Egg Drop". We didn't do the exact experiment though, we designed our own experiment by making changes to the original experiment. This experiment had to be designed carefully so that we could write the results down and put them in graph.

**Aim:**

 * Find out how much force is needed so that the masses on the wood board fall in the box, find out how much did the masses move on the piece of wood before it fell in the box.**

Materials (Original Experiment):
1. Bowl 2. Cardboard Tube 3. Egg 4. Water 5. Cardboard

Original Experiment
We tried pushing the cardboard with an equal force (every time using the same force) to see if the force applied would make the weights fall in the Plastic box.(weights with different masses).

Materials (Final Experiment)
1. Plastic Box 2. Piece of Wood 3. Weights (different masses) 4. Ramp 5. Chair 6. Basketball We rolled a Basketball to push the piece of wood for us.

We Could Have Changed:

 * Mass of the Balls we used
 * Mass of the Piece of Wood
 * Height of the Ramp
 * Angle of the Ramp

Final Experiment
This experiment should explain the same thing as the original but we have made changes in the materials used (and the space needed/more space is needed for this version of the experiment)



The Experiment
1. We put a 100g weight on the wood board and rolled the basketball. The 100g weight moved 2.5cm to the right (starting in the middle of the wood piece) before it fell in the plastic box.

2. Then we put a 200g weight in the middle of the wood board and rolled the basketball this time the weight moved 5cm to the right before it fell in the plastic box.

3. Then we put a 500g weight in the middle of the wood board and we rolled the basketball this time the weight moved 27cm to the left (which I think is quite interesting) and this time the weight also did not fall in the box.

4. Finally we put the 1kg weight in the middle of the wood piece and when we rolled the basketball the weight moved 17cm to the left as well but it also didn't fall in the box.

To complete the experiment we will have to write down our results in a graph (sketchy) and then finalize the graph on a computer and put it in our project on Newton's laws of motion.