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What is the square of the complex conjugate of the wake function?


Lizwi

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I was computing an expectation value of kinetic energy. 

Here the kinetic energy is the square of momentum divided by 2m. 

But when I square expectation value of momentum, the textbook return Psi unsquared

Please see attachment. 

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Your image cut off the top equation. Here is a hint the purpose to square the expectation value is to return a positive norm. All probability functions and energy densities are positive norm.

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