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What is the difference between weight, force and thrust? How is pressure thrust per unit area, it is force per unit area?

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The weight of a body is also a force. The force acting on a body perpendicular to its surface is called thrust. Thrust per unit area is called pressure. The unit of thrust is the same as that of force.


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