A person wearing long snowshoes can walk across a blanket of freshly fallen snow without sinking far into the snow because   (p.s. Google snowshoe if you don't know how one looks like)    snowshoes cover a larger area than a foot and so the pressure is reduced.

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Slope and Deflection

The slope in a deflected beam is described as an angle in radians made by the tangent of the section with the original axis of the beam. The deflection at any point on the axis of the beam is defined as the lateral displacement of the point before and after loading.