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Chapter 9, Problem 66E
(a)
To determine
The Fermi velocity of
(b)
To determine
The wavelength of an electron in sodium with velocity
(c)
To determine
Whether it is necessary, to treat the conduction electron gas as a quantum gas, if each sodium atom contributes one conduction electron to the electron gas and sodium atoms are spaced roughly
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