Stress tensor
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Stress tensor may refer to:
- Stress (mechanics), in classical physics
- Stress-energy tensorStress-energy tensorThe stress–energy tensor is a tensor quantity in physics that describes the density and flux of energy and momentum in spacetime, generalizing the stress tensor of Newtonian physics. It is an attribute of matter, radiation, and non-gravitational force fields...
, in relativistic theories - Maxwell stress tensorMaxwell stress tensorThe Maxwell Stress Tensor is a mathematical object in physics, more precisely it is a second rank tensor used in classical electromagnetism to represent the interaction between electric/magnetic forces and mechanical momentum...
, in electromagnetism