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  2. Stress (mechanics) - Wikipedia

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    Stress in a material body may be due to multiple physical causes, including external influences and internal physical processes. Some of these agents (like gravity, changes in temperature and phase , and electromagnetic fields) act on the bulk of the material, varying continuously with position and time.

  3. List of common physics notations - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of common physical constants and variables, and their notations. ... normal stress: pascal (Pa) scattering cross section: barn (10^-28 m^2)

  4. Stress–strain analysis - Wikipedia

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    Stress analysis is specifically concerned with solid objects. The study of stresses in liquids and gases is the subject of fluid mechanics.. Stress analysis adopts the macroscopic view of materials characteristic of continuum mechanics, namely that all properties of materials are homogeneous at small enough scales.

  5. Deformation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Engineering stress and engineering strain are approximations to the internal state that may be determined from the external forces and deformations of an object, provided that there is no significant change in size. When there is a significant change in size, the true stress and true strain can be derived from the instantaneous size of the object.

  6. List of physical quantities - Wikipedia

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    Ratio of stress to strain pascal (Pa = N/m 2) L −1 M T −2: scalar; assumes isotropic linear material spring constant: k: k is the torsional constant (measured in N·m/radian), which characterizes the stiffness of the torsional spring or the resistance to angular displacement. N/m M T −2: scalar

  7. Branches of physics - Wikipedia

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    physics education, set of methods to teach physics; physical oceanography, is the study of physical conditions and physical processes within the ocean, especially the motions and physical properties of ocean waters; psychophysics, the science of physical relations in psychology; quantum computing, the study of quantum-mechanical computation systems

  8. Alternative stress measures - Wikipedia

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    In continuum mechanics, the most commonly used measure of stress is the Cauchy stress tensor, often called simply the stress tensor or "true stress". However, several alternative measures of stress can be defined: [1] [2] [3] The Kirchhoff stress (). The nominal stress ().

  9. Tension (physics) - Wikipedia

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    Stress is a 3x3 matrix called a tensor, and the element of the stress tensor is tensile force per area, or compression force per area, denoted as a negative number for this element, if the rod is being compressed rather than elongated.