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Type your answer stress; the force applied perunit surface area of the body that produce or tends to produce deformation in a body is called stress if a force F to a area A of a body then

stress=force/area

or o=f/a

where o (stigma) denotes stress.obviously, the SI unit of stree is newton pper square meter(Nm-2).

strain; the fractonal deformation resulting from astree is called strain

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stress is the ratio of internal restoring force to the area of cross section of the wire .in general internal restoring force is equal to the applied force . stress=force applied/ area of cross section.

and strain is the ratio of change in dimension to the original dimension. therefore

strain = change in dimension / original dimension.

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