what is the difference between stress and pressure?. what
is the difference between moment and torque?
Answer Posted / thiruvenkata babuji
for defining a stress a plane vector(tensor) is required
ie stress is vector quantity
but
pressure is a scalar quantity ie which will be always
perpendicular to the surface area.
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