The egg drop

In science today we were learning about Newtown's first laws of motion.For when you hit the egg into the cup for this experiment you will need a cup a plastic plate and a empty toilet paper roll.You fill the cup up to like about halfway and then you put the plate on the cup and put the toilet paper roll on the plate and put the precious humpty dumpty egg on top.And when you hit the plate you don't want to swing it like a baseball bat you want to wack it and hopefully wake the plate and make the egg drop in.I found it easy to strategize  the power and force for that when I hit the cup it goes in.I found it hard to not swing it like a baseball bat and whack it.With the same force I always yous and not go harder.Next time I will hit the plate the same forces i did when i make it in the cup.Another thing the egg doesn't want to move it wants to stay inertia which is another word for lazy it means like if somethings moving it doesn't want to stop and if something isn't moving it doesn't want to move.