what is stress?

Answer 1

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In physics, stress is the internal distribution of forces within a body that balance and react to the loads applied to it. Stress is a tensor quantity with nine terms, but which can be described fully by six terms due to symmetry. Simplifying assumptions are often used to represent stress as a vector for engineering calculations.

Stress (roughly the opposite of relaxation) is a medical term for a wide range of strong external stimuli, both physiological and psychological, which can cause a physiological response called the general adaptation syndrome, first described in 1936 by Hans Selye in the journal Nature.


In linguistics, stress is the emphasis given to some syllables (often no more than one in each word, but in many languages, long words have a secondary stress a few syllables away from the primary stress, as in the words cóunterfòil or còunterintélligence).

Answer 2

WHAT IS STRESS?
We are all familiar with the word "stress". Stress is when you are worried about getting laid off your job, or worried about having enough money to pay your bills, or worried about your mother when the doctor says she may need an operation. In fact, to most of us, stress is synonymous with worry. If it is something that makes you worry, then it is stress.

Your body, however, has a much broader definition of stress. TO YOUR BODY, STRESS IS SYNONYMOUS WITH CHANGE. Anything that causes a change in your life causes stress. It doesn't matter if it is a "good" change, or a "bad" change, they are both stress. When you find your dream apartment and get ready to move, that is stress. If you break your leg, that is stress. Good or bad, if it is a CHANGE in your life, it is stress as far as your body is concerned.

Even IMAGINED CHANGE is stress. (Imagining changes is what we call "worrying".) If you fear that you will not have enough money to pay your rent, that is stress. If you worry that you may get fired, that is stress. If you think that you may receive a promotion at work, that is also stress (even though this would be a good change). Whether the event is good or bad, imagining changes in your life is stressful.

Anything that causes CHANGE IN YOUR DAILY ROUTINE is stressful.

Anything that causes CHANGE IN YOUR BODY HEALTH is stressful.

IMAGINED CHANGES are just as stressful as real changes.

Let us look at several types of stress -- ones that are so commonplace that you might not even realize that they are stressful.......

Emotional Stress
When arguments, disagreements, and conflicts cause CHANGES in your personal life -- that is stress

Answer 3

A point is under stress if it is receiving a force that is greater than it is able to withstand over a prolong period. Typically, in such a situation, the point under stress will give way and break down or become weakened.

Answer 4

In physics, stress is a measure of the internal distribution of force per unit area within a body that balances and reacts to the loads applied to it.

Answer 5

Pressure. Either by being overburdened mentally by something ("A huge amount of homework really stresses me out") or exerting physical force (The bridge collapsed from the stress of the heavy truck").

Answer 6

STRESS is the condition caused when the body over-rides the brain and causes the brain to think about beating the living crap out of something....

Answer 7

stress is nothing but the strain felt by somebody: mental, emotional, or physical strain caused, e.g. by anxiety or overwork. It may cause such symptoms as raised blood pressure or depression

Answer 8

stress is the internal source.
modulus =stress\strain
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. . stress=strain*modulus

Answer 9

Check out (http://www.reducingstress.net ) there is a lot of great articles and expert advice on the subject there.

Answer 10

A state of extreme difficulty, pressure, or strain