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Re: [Phys-l] pressure

John Denker wrote:
There's a pretty strong consensus nowadays that there is no such thing
as a pressure tensor. If you think you've got a pressure tensor,
change the sign and call it the stress tensor.


Strong consensus? You may check this website at University of California, Berkeley:
http://astron.berkeley.edu/~jrg/ay202/node50.html

What is right or wrong in Physics? It is sometimes quite political... Science is quite subjective...


Alphonsus