TEAM X Status Report - Day 2

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Meaning of Air resistance: Slows objects down when falling, because air is pushing against an object to slow it down.
Air resistance plays a big role in our project because it's what's slows down the landing of our egg capsule so it doesn't have a big hard impact  once it hits the ground.


Day 2; Today we tested our egg capsule for the first time!! Some things that went well while testing was that our egg stayed in place in the small nest that we made out of pipe cleaners, this is used to support the egg and cushion it so once the capsule hits the ground the egg will have a smaller chance of breaking. Next class we are planning on adding more padding to the egg so it is more cushioned when the energy is being transferred from Potential energy to Kinetic energy. For this change of energy we have also added a parachute to slow down the landing so it doesn't have a big impact once the kinetic energy is at 100%.  One thing that hasn't gone very well in our project, is being able to land the egg on the target “ Xmarks the spot”.  Something that I have learned from my design test so far, that goes back to the idea of landing the space capsule on the X mark, is that you have to be standing a bit away from the X once you are above ground,  so once you let go the egg capsule it will land on the opposite side, but in order for this to work you need to let go of the parachute further in front of the X mark. This idea was what we were having trouble with, getting it to land on the X.

Goals for next class: finish final touches and hope egg doesn't die when final testing.

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