Greetings, readers. I’ll be talking about our egg parachute and the friendly competiton with my classmates.
We’ve been learning about forces and mainly focusing on air resistance, this experiment has helped me understand these topics.
We couldn’t really do the project yet because the design was mainly made by Kelvin and he was late that time. We started getting the stuff as soon as Kelvin arrived, we’ve assigned each other on different stuffs. I put a egg tray in the cup and foams around it, so it won’t move. After that, we’ve designed it like a McFLurry sundae and poke holes on it. Later on, we’ve connected it, then, decided to put legs under the cup. We’ve realized that it was too heavy and came up to a plan to put another canopy, which really did help. Afterwards, we put the egg and taped the top.
We’ve dropped our egg partachute and shockingly found out that our parachute was the slowest landing out all of them (1.092). Our egg didn’t break and I think the our double canopy really played a big part on slowing the landing; as the canopy opens up, catches the air, creating an upward force called drag/air resistance. Some of the parachutes fell faster because it lacks canopy, which is not a good thing because we wouldn’t be able to generate more air resistace resulting a rough landing.The only thing I would change about my egg parachute is on how we covered the egg because I think there’s another way to seal it more safer and more creative.
