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Past exam of the chemistry A course of the University of Cambridge 2024 Paper 1 A2 c Solution by
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In the position representation, multiplies by and . Acting on an arbitrary differentiable test function shows the commutator explicitly:Therefore , whose expectation value is in every normalized state in the relevant domains. The Robertson uncertainty principle givesThis is a lower bound, not a claim that every state saturates it.
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