Now, it's a general term shared among the sciences to talk about the distribution of a quantity in space. For example, biology and the social sciences have population density. read more
Density is a key concept in analyzing how materials interact in fluid mechanics, weather, geology, material sciences, engineering, and other fields of physics. Specific Gravity A concept related to density is the specific gravity (or, even more appropriate, relative density) of a material, which is the ratio of the material's density to the density of water. read more