Crush It
Our experiment “Crush It” was to find out how many pounds ordinary shell structures could hold. The nine shell structures we tested were, an egg carton, an egg on it’s side, an egg on it’s end, Styrofoam cup, a muffin liner, a full orange, a half an orange, half of a tomato, and a ice cream cone. We had a wooden block to push down on, ( so the weight was spread out equally) and a scale to measure how many pounds we were pushing down. Some of the results we got were 62 pounds before the full orange crushed, and 0.75 pounds before the muffin liner crushed. After the experiment, I learned that all of this could be used in real life. It connected to how the state of California is worried about earth quakes, and they need to test on buildings and bridges so that they know it can withstand, or not completely fall apart, when an actual earth quake hits. I learned alot, and had alot of fun doing this experiment.
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