[Phys-l] pressure

[<carmelo@pacific.net.sg>]

John Denker wrote:
> Stress tensors outnumber pressure tensors by more than ten to one,
> according to google:
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=pressure-tensor
>    http://www.google.com/search?q=stress-tensor

Hey John, 

If you try google search with stress tensor and pressure tensor *without the hyphen*, then you'll find that 
there are 1,450,000 hits for "stress tensor"
      and 1,210,000 hits for "pressure tensor"

Currently, there are more books according to Gary Oas' paper that are adopting "relativistic mass" rather than "invariant mass", so we should stick with relativistic mass?

Thanks for raising an interesting issue! Politics again? :-)


Alphonsus