Equation 103 · Part 1 · The Atlas That Refuses to Close

Symbol x_w

x_w = \langle f|\hat x|\psi\rangle/\langle f|\psi\rangle

x_w

What this part means

$x_w$ is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

Its job in the formula

$x_w$ is part of the quantity the equation computes from the expression on the right.

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The passage around this formula

Applied to position, the same object, $x_w$ = $\langle$ f| $\hat x$ | $\psi$ $\rangle$ / $\langle$ f| $\psi$ $\rangle$ , is this atlas’s fifth chart, and it is admitted with a label the other four do not carry. $x_w$ answers a genuinely different question from every chart above: not “what does this state’s position operator return,” but “what does a weakly…

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Sources cited in the article section

[11] How the Result of a Measurement of a Component of the Spin of a Spin-1/2 Particle Can Turn Out to Be 100 ↗

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