Pressire acts on all directions, which means that pressure has a direction to act upon, allbeit plural. A scalar quantity is a force that has no direction to act upon. How is pressure a scalar quantity? Shouldn’t it be a vector quantity?

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    11 months ago

    Surfaces are vector quantities so write :
    P . S_vector = F_vector