Difference between stress & pressure

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / prasanta kumar mishra

Stress is a tensor quantity whereas pressure is a scalar quantity.

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Answer / lalendra rai

generally stress is the internal property of the material which require externally applied load.In the absence of externally applied load stress is zero and hence we can say that it is a dependent quantity.
whereas pressure is an external property.

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Answer / hari

simply both are the same but only the difference is stress is only in/on solid matters in case of pressure available on liquids and gas (both units are same N/mm^2)

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / himanshu purohit

stress apllied only in solids and pressure applied in every thing i.e. soild liquid gas.

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / divya bhavsar

pressure is apllied perpendicular to the surface but stress
need not to be perpendicular, it can act at any angle on
the body

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / amitabh bachchan

spelling of stress is completely different from pressure.
so simple

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / danish

i have no answer

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / saurabh

Stress and pressure have slight difference although they
have the same formula for calculation, when the force is
applied to a body and the movement of body is fixed or
coinstraint stress comes into picture such that the force
generated is internal and when the body is not coinstraint
pressure comes into effect.

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Difference between stress & pressure..

Answer / lekha sharma

pressure= force/area
whereas stress=strain/youngs modulus

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