https://gdpark.blog/tags/expectation-value/Recent content in Expectation Value on gdpark.blogHugoenMon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-03-the-momentum-operator/Tue, 11 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-03-the-momentum-operator/Cranking through the math to differentiate ⟨x⟩ with respect to time — and stumbling our way into the momentum operator.https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-15-formalism-observables-and-hermitian-operators/Mon, 17 Aug 2015 00:00:00 +0000https://gdpark.blog/posts/quantum-mechanics-15-formalism-observables-and-hermitian-operators/Why measurement in QM always spits out real numbers — and how that forces every observable to be a Hermitian operator. (Daggers are literally knives, lol.)