Why a glass pane of a window is shattered when a flying pebble hits it?

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When a pebble is moving with some velocity and hit a glass pane that is at rest.
When it hits the glass pane the velocity of the pebble decreases suddenly and the momentum becomes large.
As a result the force by the pebble also becomes large and breaks the glass pane.

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Why a glass pane of a window is shattered when a flying pebble hits it?

When a pebble is moving with some velocity and hit a glass pane that is at rest.When it hits the glass pane the velocity of the pebble decreases suddenly and the momentum becomes large.As a result the force by the pebble also becomes large and breaks the glass pane.

When a pebble is moving with some velocity and hit a glass pane that is at rest.
When it hits the glass pane the velocity of the pebble decreases suddenly and the momentum becomes large.
As a result the force by the pebble also becomes large and breaks the glass pane.