Hello. My friend and I are having a discussion about how to drop an egg if you want it to survive the fall.
There are two assumptions, one is that the egg is equally as fragile on all sides.
two is that we have no materials, just the egg.
So how do we drop it? Do we hope that it hits one of the flatter and larger sides? Or do we aim it so that it hits the pointy top, or the slightly less pointy bottom?
I argue that we should drop it on its flat side, so the force is spread out over the whole egg.
My friend argues that you want to drop it on the pointy top (i forget why she said it), but her reasoning is that divers jump into the water and go in with a tiny amount of body contact, they dont belly flop in.
So which one is right? mine? hers? neither?