Stress
Stress is a physical quantity that expresses
the internal forces that neighboring particles of a continuous material
exert on each other. For example, when a solid vertical bar is
supporting a weight, each particle in the bar pulls on the particles
immediately above and below it. When a liquid is under pressure, each
particle gets pushed inwards by all the surrounding particles, and, in
reaction, pushes them outwards. These macroscopic forces are actually
the average of a very large number of intermolecular forces and
collisions between the molecules in those particles.
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