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Homework Statement
Given a wave function that is the super position of the two lowest energies of a particle in an infinite square well ##\Psi = \frac{\sqrt{2}}{\sqrt{3}}\psi _1 + \frac{1}{\sqrt{3}}\psi _2##, find ##\langle E \rangle##.
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The Attempt at a Solution
I'm not sure how to proceed with this problem. I understand that we basically need to find the coefficients ##c_n## from ##\langle H \rangle = \sum |c_n|^2 E_n##, but I'm not sure how to find ##E_n##. The energy of each state is known to be ##E_n = \frac{n^2 \pi ^2 \hbar ^2}{2mL^2}##, but without the problem giving the length of the box, I can't see how we can use this.