what is the difference between stress and pressure?. what
is the difference between moment and torque?
Answer Posted / anurag
1. when ever a tensile or compressive force acts on a body
it tends to go under deformation , stress is the resistive
force per unit area offered by the body to avoid
deformation whereas pressure on a body is the external
force per unit area acting on the body
2. stress is material property whereas pressure is not.
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