Solution

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Linearity and the shared angular eigenvalue give
Using the relative phases in part (c),
Thus each real orbital remains an energy eigenstate with hartree and has definite orbital angular momentum magnitude , but neither is an eigenfunction of . A measurement of gives or , each with probability . Its mean is zero and its variance is ; a zero mean does not mean that a measurement gives zero.

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