Timeline for What is the difference between pressure and stress?
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| Jan 27, 2015 at 18:00 | comment | added | Ethan48 | OK. That's fair. It was not clear to me how formal of an answer was expected. I was just trying to communicate the broad concept in a clear way. Obviously the person who asked the question can select a different answer if it more clearly resolves their question. | |
| Jan 27, 2015 at 16:42 | comment | added | Tristan | I feel like this is an overly simplistic answer that gives the impression that stress is only something that happens to solids. Stresses do indeed exist in fluids. The distinction is that pressure is a scalar quantity; it is isotropic -- the same in every direction. Stress, on the other hand, is a tensor quantity, it is directional, but it follows certain rules of frame invariance. | |
| Jan 26, 2015 at 9:39 | vote | accept | CommunityBot | ||
| Jan 25, 2015 at 16:28 | history | answered | Ethan48 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |