[Ace Gunner]

Originally Posted by Fat Elvis

OK, now I'm really confused. I've read online that it takes ~25 Newtons to break an egg, however, using the calculator in nstygma's link, you could drop a 55 gram egg ~5m before you'd reach that 25 Newtons threshold. I can drop an egg from a foot and in all likelihood it will break.

Can someone explain what I am missing here?

Thanks

times the square root of;



Then take the reciprocal