stress

is stress a scalar or a vector?

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Akand ·

dunno.............i never had stress in my life...........

i think scalar....coz many people face only its magnitude....and i nevr heard any of them saying i had stress today in d north direction or sumthing like that......

so i think scalar..

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Celestine preetham ·

http://www.geol.umd.edu/pages/facilities/lmdr/press.html

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aieeee ·

stress comes in d category of "tensor",which means neither scalar nor vector.its not scalar as for a given force it has different values in different directions.its also not a vector as it has no specific direction.

moment of inertia is another example of "tensor".

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Akand ·

ya even AREA vector is tensor

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abhishek sahoo ·

aieee is absolutely correct

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