All iPads Just curious, how much impulse can the tip of an Apple Pencil withstand?

[wry]

Sometimes when I'm thinking really hard I'll repeatedly pick up and drop my Apple Pencil by a few centimeters onto its tip on the table as a way of fidgeting. And that got me thinking, how much impulse (as defined in physics as change in momentum) can the tip as well as the mechanism underneath withstand? I know it should be quite a bit because the Apple Pencil incorporates a strain gauge that's meant to handle a lot of force, but... I don't know.

 

[MajorFubar]

It's amazing the things we sometimes wonder about, randomly.
I sometimes wonder how much wood could a wood chopper chop if a wood chopper could chop wood.

 

[Slartibart]

Sometimes when I'm thinking really hard I'll repeatedly pick up and drop my Apple Pencil by a few centimeters onto its tip on the table as a way of fidgeting. And that got me thinking, how much impulse (as defined in physics as change in momentum) can the tip as well as the mechanism underneath withstand? I know it should be quite a bit because the Apple Pencil incorporates a strain gauge that's meant to handle a lot of force, but... I don't know.

so go and do your own experiment… seems straight forward, right? ?

please do not forget to report your results. ?

if you referring to the force which is defined as the change in momentum produced by force, and which is equal to the product of force and the time for which it acts - what do you expect from obtaining that information?

 

[glenthompson]

I dropped my pencil on the floor and it hit on the tip. Bent the new of the tip and it didn’t track as well. Replaced tip and it was good as new.