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Difference Distinguish between force and pressure.


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The Difference between force and pressure is given below : 

  Force  Pressure 
1. Force is an external agent which changes or tends to change the state of a body. Pressure is a force acting normally per unit area.
2. Its SI unit is newton. Its SI unit is Pascal.
3. It is given by the formula F= m*a It is given by the formula p = f/a
4. it is a vector quantity meaning depended on the direction of the force applied.  Pressure is a scalarr  quantity hence not dependent on the direction of the pressure applied. 

Force is the push and pulls action and it results in the change of motion and direction. On the other hand, the pressure is the physical force applied to the unit area of the surface. Force is the effect produced due to the interaction of two objects which tries to change the state of the object.Force is a push or a pull and is the cause of acceleration. Pressure is the amount of force per unit of area (the smaller the area supporting a given force, the greater the pressure on that surface).

Pressure (symbol: p or P) is the force applied perpendicular to the surface of an object per unit area over which that force is distributed. ... Pressure may also be expressed in terms of standard atmospheric pressure; the atmosphere (atm) is equal to this pressure, and the torr is defined as ​1760 of this.A force is a push or pull upon an object resulting from the object's interaction with another object whereas Stress is an internal resistance to provided by the body itself whenever it is under some kind of deformation.Pressure—the effect of a force applied to a surface—is a derived unit, obtained from combining base units. The unit of pressure in the SI system is the pascal (Pa), defined as a force of one Newton per square meter. The conversion between atm, Pa, and torr is as follows: 1 atm = 101325 Pa = 760 torr.

Pressure depends on the amount of force and the area over which the force is applied. ... In fact, pressure is directly proportional to force, and inversely proportional to area.A person standing up produces more pressure because the surface area it is putting a force underneath is smaller than a person lying down.

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