Talk:charge density

RFD discussion: August–October 2015

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charge density

Not an idiom, simply means what it says, no need to have the separate article. Charge (in physics) means "electric charge". Yurivict (talk) 21:49, 26 August 2015 (UTC)

I'd tend to keep any physics term that has its own letter, even it's SOP (since that would indicate that physicists think of it as a set term – magnetic flux density is apparent from the sum of its parts, but it has a distinct symbol (B) and is a fundamental quantity in electromagnetics). However, the symbol for charge density is just the symbol for density (in three dimensions, ρ), with a subscript _q for charge, which indicates that it's probably not thought of as a distinct quantity, just a useful mathematical object. Weak delete Smurrayinchester (talk) 15:25, 27 August 2015 (UTC)

• Keep as translation target. Translates to a single word in at least a couple of languages. Pengo (talk) 02:23, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
• Keep using the lemming heuristic: in oxforddictionaries.com[1], AHD[2], Collins[3]. --Dan Polansky (talk) 06:12, 5 September 2015 (UTC)
• Delete since it is an obvious sum of parts. I would only say to keep charge density (ρ_q) if we also have entries for every other variable that is distributed in space, e.g. mass density (ρ_m), particle density (ρ_n), magnetic-flux density (B), energy density (ρ_E), etc. Nicole Sharp (talk) 06:19, 14 October 2015 (UTC)

No consensus to delete. bd2412 T 14:22, 19 October 2015 (UTC)