ADVISORY/Engineering EGGS-TREME GAMES Come to Drexel with Ninth Annual Kamikaze Egg Drop.News Editors/Assignment Desks ADVISORY...for Fri. (Feb. 21) --(BUSINESS WIRE) What: The Eggs-treme Games for engineering come to Drexel Drexel can refer to: People
the University's ninth annual Kamikaze kamikaze (kä'məkä`zē) [Jap.,=divine wind], the typhoon that destroyed Kublai Khan's fleet, foiling his invasion of Japan in 1281. Egg Drop. Emotions will run the gamut See color gamut. gamut - The gamut of a monitor is the set of colours it can display. There are some colours which can't be made up of a mixture of red, green and blue phosphor emissions and so can't be displayed by any monitor. from Egg-citment to Eggs-hileration as students and faculty strive for Egg-cellence. The goal of these Kamikaze egg droppers is to design a device that will protect one Grade A raw egg from splattering after it propels down a 100-foot steel cable from the third floor of Drexel's Great Court and slams into a wooden barricade at ground level. But having the egg successfully complete its ride down the cable is only half the battle. Egg survival is factored together with its speed down the cable to determine the top three finishers (1,000/(0.6 x time + 0.4 x mass) = score). Teams of four students have designed their devices utilizing balloons, wood, paper and insulating foam, among other materials. The engineering principles in practice in this contest are impulse impulse, in mechanics: see momentum. Impulse (mechanics) The integral of a force over an interval of time. For a force F , the impulse J over the interval from t0 to t1 momentum and controlled deceleration deceleration /de·cel·er·a·tion/ (de-sel?er-a´shun) decrease in rate or speed. early deceleration , both of which are related to Newtonian physics. More than 30 student teams will be competing for prizes of $200, $150 and $100. Engineers from Philadelphia's Kling-Lindquist Partnership Inc. will judge the event, which concludes Drexel's observance of National Engineers Week. When: Friday, February 21, 2002 from 1 - 2 p.m. Where: Drexel's Main Building Great Court (32nd & Chestnut chestnut, name for any species of the genus Castanea, deciduous trees of the family Fagaceae (beech or oak family) widely distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. They are characterized by thin-shelled, sweet, edible nuts borne in a bristly bur. streets) |
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