merrill@raja.DEC (11/15/85)
'Pears to me that unless you have a perfect release of the egg-brick combo it could rotate randomly, so you will have to use aerodynamics to make the brick land on the bottom: give it a "tail" of feathers/paper about three times as long as the rest of the package. To get the length "right" would require controlling the magnitude of the oscillation upon impact: the package will be like \ then | then / then | then \ and so on. You'll need the velocity at impact, the moment of inertia of the whole thing, the aerodynamic force on the "tail" (proportional to the velocity x surface area). You can then plug those parameters into the equation for a pendulum [which itself can be derived from a dimemsional analysis of the parameters]. Rick Merrill