Discuss the expectation value without considering Hermitian operators and physical waves and show that expectation values are imaginary and dimensionally incorrect in this context
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In quantum mechanics, the expectation value of an observable is given by the inner product of the state vector with the corresponding eigenstate of the observable. Mathematically, it is represented as: āØAā© = āØĻ|A|Ļā© where |Ļā© is the state vector and A is the Show moreā¦
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