Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site prometheus.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxt!houxm!whuxl!whuxlm!akgua!gatech!seismo!umcp-cs!prometheus!pmk From: pmk@prometheus.UUCP (Paul M Koloc) Newsgroups: net.physics Subject: Re: HELP! Real life physics problem. Message-ID: <192@prometheus.UUCP> Date: Tue, 5-Nov-85 22:02:58 EST Article-I.D.: promethe.192 Posted: Tue Nov 5 22:02:58 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 10-Nov-85 08:31:43 EST References: <773@charm.UUCP> Organization: Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD Lines: 24 > > I have a small physics problem for all you net.physics.pudits out > there. I have an assignment to drop a brick and an egg in a shoebox out > of a two story window onto a sidewalk. The egg must not break (of course), and > I can put whatever I want into the box. In most states such experiments are illegal. But. .... A two stories fall won't be enough to pulverize the brick so pulverize it first, mix the brick powder with half a shoe box full of butter, chill the butter, mold it into ball around the egg, and put it into the center of the shoe box surrounded with a filler of granules of styrofoam or freshly popped popcorn. To keep the butter hard try crushing a couple of ice cubes, putting the crushed ice into a ziploc bag, zip it up and put that around the butter and brick mixture. Zipped ziploc bags filled with air might even work in place of the filler. Try it if it's safe and legal and post the results to the net. - - NOTE: MAIL PATH MAY DIFFER FROM HEADER - - +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+ | Paul M. Koloc, President: (301) 445-1075 | FUSION | | Prometheus II Ltd., College Park, MD 20740-0222 | this | | ..umcp-cs!seismo!prometheus!pmk.UUCP | decade | +-------------------------------------------------------+--------+