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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
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Posted: Tue Nov  5 22:02:58 1985
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> 	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.

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