why pressure is scalar
 

why pressure is treated as a scalar quantity ?

Re: why pressure is scalar
 

Have you studied continuum mechanics, or tensor calculus, at college?

This will give you the answer you need.

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Re: why pressure is scalar
 

Simply put, a scalar has a magnitude but no direction. A vector has both a magnitude and a direction. For example, speed is a scalar (I'm going 60 mph in my car), but velocity is a vector (I'm going 60 mph northeast).