Will a filled glass bottle be more or less likely to break?

Question

Will a glass bottle, filled with a liquid like water, be more or less likely than an empty glass bottle to break on impact i.e. when it drops onto the floor or is hit by something hard?

Or is there no difference?

Answer 1

i think a filled glass would break easier because it's heavier.

Answer 2

I don't think the contents really matter.  Whatever the case, right spot with right force, will break the glass, either u break it or drop it.

Answer 3

a glass bottle, filled with liquid like water will be less likely to break than a bottle half filled.

Answer 4

Sounds like a fun but rather messy experiment.  Here's a way to try it with minimum mess.  Get a bunch of identical bottles, perhaps soda or water bottles from the same case.  Suspend one from a string.  Suspend a weight from another string so it just barely touches the bottle when at rest.  Wrap it in something like a sweatshirt sleeve to spread its impact.  That way, the results depend less on exactly what part of the glass you happen to hit.  Release it from 5 degrees.  Keep increasing the angle until it breaks.  You'll get the best measurement with the fewest broken bottles.

The only way it won't break is if you can transfer the momentum from the hammer to the whole bottle within the tensile limits of the glass.  Water will help propagate the impact but it also makes the bottle heavier (more inertial).

Here's my hypothesis.  But it's only a hypothesis until it's tested.  With a hard, crystalline glass, the inertial effect will dominate, and the water-filled bottle will break first.  With a softer, more fluid glass, the water will be more effective at distributing the impact, and the empty bottle will break first.