Density -- from Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

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Density

A measure of a substance's mass per unit of volume. For a substance with mass m and volume V,

(1)

For a body of weight placed in a fluid of weight ,

(2)

where is the specific gravity. For an ideal gas,

(3)

Mass, Number Density, Specific Gravity




References

Weast, R. C. (Ed.). Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, 61st ed. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 1981.



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