Egg Drop Safety Device

January 2017 Group 7, Alex Diggs

Safety Features

Our egg drop safety device contains, a head restraint, front and rear crumple zones, airbags, a cushioned
seat, shock absorbing foam, side impact beams, a stabilizing beam, and side airbags. Our egg drop
safety device is created to diffuse forces using the structural integrity of a triangle. The force created by
the impact is dispersed evenly through the triangle and divert it from the egg.

Energy Conversions

Before Our egg drop device is dropped it has gravitational potential energy, and when it is dropped the
potential energy turns into kinetic energy. When our egg drop device hits the floor, the kinetic energy
converts into sound energy, and thermal energy because there is friction caused when the floor and the
egg drop device collide, and there is also a loud bang.

Physics Concepts

-Newtons Laws

Newton's First Law: Newton's first law is evident in the collision, because it the egg safety vehicle didnt
collide with the ground, it wouldnt stop, and it would continue on moving down. Newtons Second
Law:Newtons second law states that F=MA, this relates to the collision because the force in the collision
is equal to the mass of our egg drop device and its acceleration. Newtons Third Law: Newtons third
law states that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. This is evident in the collision because,
for example, when the egg drop device hits the ground, it bounces up, and makes a banging sound.

-Impulse and change in Momentum: Crumple zones have been a part of cars for a while. Impulse and
change in momentum can be related to crumple zones because when a car with front and rear crumple
zones is hit, or hits something, the crumple zone crumples, and takes the main amount of force in the
collision. It changes the direction of the momentum, and transfers it throughout the crumple zones and
away from the main body of the car.

-Kinetic Energy: Assuming the egg drops device weighs about 1 kilogram, the gravity force is 9.8, and
the way to calculate KE is 1/2=MV^2, the KE would be around 19.477joules.

-GPE: Using the equation GPE=MGH, I have concluded that the GPE of our egg drop device is around
10.351 joules.

-LOCOM: The Locom can be used to describe the before collision and after collision forces when a large
vehicle collides with a smaller vehicle during an inelastic collision because the momentum carries the
vehicles into each other, and spreads the forces through the cars and the road.
-LOCOE: The LOCOE can be used to calculate the velocity of the device upon impact because the same
amount of energy will still be present before and after the collision, just broken up into different forms.