Question

Why does a glass vessel break when it falls on a hard floor, but does not break when it falls on a carpet ?

Answer 1

Ans.

Yes, it is observed that the glass vessel breaks when it falls on the hard floor, but it does not breaks when it falls on the carpet.

This happens so because the carpet is known to be less dense as compared to that of the floor.

Being the floor denser it causes the glass vessel to break.

Answer 2

When a glass vessel falls from a height on a hard floor,it comes to rest almost instantaneously so the floor exerts a large force on the vessel and it breaks.But if it falls on a carpet ,the time duration in which the vessel comes to rest,increases and so the carpet exerts a less force on the vessel and it does not break..

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