Physics Asked by sherz1 on July 22, 2021
My cousins and I have a annual egg breaking tournament. First, each of us gets a hard boiled egg. Then, in a bracket tournament style, a pair of us face off in an egg breaking round: one person holds their egg, and their opponent smashes their own egg into the first’s egg. Whoever’s egg shell stays unbroken wins that round, and moves on, and the other person is eliminated.
This goes on in the regular tournament style, until one of us is declared the champion, and receives fame, glory, and a year’s worth of bragging rights.
So my question is: what is the optimal strategy to win this game? Specifically:
If you want to smash another person's egg, you simply need a firm grip around the base of the egg (the wide end) and attack with the narrow end of the egg pointed at the other person's egg. The science behind this is the physics of pressure $$ P=F/A $$ P for pressure, F for force and A for area. When the narrow end of your egg hits the side of another egg 2 things happen:
Answered by Misc.nerdiness on July 22, 2021
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