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Thanks for the suggestions Fightfish, all is well now! Putting the original chi amplitudes into polar form was the trick, exactly for the reason you said. I was able to factor out an overall phase and them simply match coefficients with |S_{r};+>. If anyone finds this and wants to try, I...

Homework Statement Hi All, this problem is related to spin-1/2 in an arbitrary direction, in particular building off of, but going beyond, Griffiths QM 4.30. I am given an unnormalized general spin state, \chi in the z basis, and then asked "in what direction is the spin state pointing?"...