For my last blog, I'd like to share my footage from the Egg v/s Sheet Experiment we did at the Jay Walk.
For the shell of the egg to break requires a high impulse, or instantaneous force. With the wall, all the force to stop the egg occurs almost at the same time, so the impulse is very high, breaking the egg, as we saw during the "accident".
With the sheet however, the force to stop the egg is applied over a much greater period of time. Therefore, the force is lower at each instant of the collision, meaning a vastly reduced impulse. Since the impulse is much less than what is required to break the shell, the egg does not break.
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