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Can you explain using an example?? Sorry for the hassle...

State function - Properties of the system that are independent of the history of the system. The values of these variables can be calculated from knowledge of the present state of the system, without knowing its history. Can someone clarify that?? I'm not getting what a state function is...

I'm a bit confused about the right-handed and left-handed proteins. I know that the coiled coil structure has to be left-handed but why wikipedia shows 2 right-handed coil instead?? Does it mean that a the 2 alpha-helix are right-handed but coiled together in a left-handed way?? I have...

So does that mean that there won't be any left-handed proteins in our bodies?

Proteins Are protein structures always right-handed??

Why does one refers to it as a "minimum uncertainty" wavefunction?

I'm not sure how should I ask the question, so I'm going to go ahead and quote from the book. "The model of a particle in a one-dimensional box has been applied to the pi electons in a linear conjugated hydrocarbons. Consider butadiene, H2C=CHCH=CH2, which has four pi electrons. Although...