• Atomic vibrations in a metal. Consider point ions of mass M and charge e im- mersed in a uniform sea of conduction electrons. The ions are imagined to be in stable equilibrium when at regular lattice points. If one ion is displaced a small dis- tance r from its equilibrium position, the restoring force is largely due to the elec- tric charge within the sphere of radius r centered at the equilibrium position. Take the number density of ions (or of conduction electrons) as 3/4πR3, which defines R. (a) Show that the frequency of a single ion set into oscillation is @ = (e²/MR3)1/2 (b) Estimate the value of this frequency for sodium, roughly. (c) From (a), (b), and some common sense, estimate the order of magnitude of the velocity of sound in the metal.