Eggs and Impulse. An illustration to the Impulse Unit Converter

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Impulse Unit Converter:

Two eggs of the same mass were dropped from the same height of 70 cm on two different surfaces. One was dropped into an empty thick-walled glass bowl, another — into the same bowl with 1 inch of dry rice. Each egg has the same velocity at the time of the collision (we will determine it from the video footage). That means each egg has the same momentum (mass times velocity). The question is if the momentum is the same for both eggs, why are the results are so different?

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