Tuesday, April 7, 2015

In Newtonian pressure, what type of function is force?


This is pressure in Newtonian mechanics:


$$P=\frac {dF}{dA}.$$ What does this mean? (Doesn't it mean that force is a function of area?) What type of function is force?




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