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Waxbear
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When reading in Griffiths and on Wikipedia about the vector space formulation of wavefunctions, i am constantly faced with the statement that a vector can be expressed in different bases, but that it's still the same vector. However, I'm having a hard time imagining what it is about a vector that makes it the same vector, independent of the base you express it in. As i see it, the base and coefficients completely describe the vector, so how can you say it's the same vector when you change the base and coefficients. In other words, what property of the vector is the same in all bases? (I guess this is more of a Linear algebra question really.)