You are a crewmember on a space station orbiting Earth. To investigate some physics you remember from

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You are a crewmember on a space station orbiting Earth. To investigate some physics you remember from college, you drill a small hole all the way through a large solid nonconducting sphere of radius \(R\) that has a negative charge \(q_{s}\) evenly distributed throughout its volume, making sure the hole goes through the sphere's center. You then go outside the station with the sphere and release a small pellet carrying positive charge \(+q_{\mathrm{p}}\) at one entrance of the hole. You are gratified to observe that the pellet oscillates with the frequency you calculated beforehand based on Gauss's law and your knowledge of simple harmonic motion. What is that frequency?

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