Question
Why does it happen? Fruits can easily he cut with a sharp knife.
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Answer
- It is easy to cut vegetables. fruits with a sharp knife. A blunt knife does not work here.
- The force exerted perpendicularly on a unit area is called ‘pressure’
- Presently we are considering only the force acting on an area in a direction perpendicular to it.
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