Number Density - Definition

Definition

Number density is the number of specified objects per volume:

,

where

N is the total number of objects in a volume V.

Here it is assumed that N is large enough that rounding of the count to the nearest integer does not introduce much of an error, however V is chosen to be small enough that the resulting n does not depend much on the size or shape of the volume V.

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