1dunno.............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..
9http://www.geol.umd.edu/pages/facilities/lmdr/press.html
1stress 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
·2009-06-19 19:00:09
ya even AREA vector is tensor
