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The idea of ‘stress’ was introduced in Unit 4. (You might like to revise Unit 4 before continuing with Unit 8.) When a force is used to squash or compress a solid, the effect on the solid depends on its shape. A force spread over a large area will have less effect than the same force when concentrated on a small area.
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Kibble, R. (1989). Pressure. In: Making Use of Physics for GCSE. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10328-7_9
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