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ENERGY AND STRESS.
[643.
, ,
(18)

and the tangential stresses disappear.

The stress in this case is therefore a hydrostatic pressure , combined with a longitudinal tension along the lines of force.

643.] When there is no magnetization, , and the stress is still further simplified, being a tension along the lines of force equal to , combined with a pressure in all directions at right angles to the lines of force, numerically equal also to . The components of stress in this important case are

,
,
,
,
,
.

The force arising from these stresses on an element of the medium referred to unit of volume is

,
,
.


Now
,
,
,

where is the density of austral magnetic matter referred to unit