Unit 7-Egg Drop (Failure...)

Well... Today we dropped our eggs. Some of us were successful and others of us happened to fail. But that is ok. It's not the end all be all of physics. Our design was quite simple and elegant if I do say so myself. I think that the premise of sticking the egg in a foam container is a very good one because the foam will act as something that will absorbs most of the shock that occurs from the capsule hitting the ground. The use of cotton was also a good addition to the design because it allowed us to be able to close the halves of the football together without putting too much stress on the egg. During our drop the release of the football was designed to make sure that it did not land on the tip of the ball, which it didn't, thank God. When the ball stroke the ground, it unfortunately bounced up again probably causing extra force to act on the egg. Next time around, I would like to have used a bigger football because that would have been even more padding for the egg. The optimal situation would have been to go with our original plan of putting the egg in a jar of peanut butter but what we had was very good and I am not necessarily happy with the end result but I did learn a lot.