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Quantum Physics I

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Instructors: Prof. Allan Adams, Prof. Matthew Evans, Prof. Barton Zwiebach
Term: Spring 2013
Level: Undergraduate
What's inside: 24 videos · 10 problem sets · 4 exams · 10 solutions · 1 lecture note · 1 reading · 49 other files · 5 web pages
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Final Exam Formula Sheet: Fourier Transforms & the Schrödinger Equation

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This course’s cited books, in our reading lists: The Feynman Lectures on Physics · Introduction to Quantum Mechanics · Principles of Quantum Mechanics · Introduction to Quantum Mechanics

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24 video transcripts

Quantum Physics I

Formula sheet

Before you start

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Lecture Notes

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Exams

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MIT 8.04 Quantum Physics I, Spring 2013 (2013) Open playlist ↗

Lecture 1: Introduction to Superposition

Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life

Lecture 3: The Wave Function

Lecture 4: Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty

Lecture 5: Operators and the Schrödinger Equation

Lecture 6: Time Evolution and the Schrödinger Equation

Lecture 7: More on Energy Eigenstates

Lecture 8: Quantum Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 9: Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator

Lecture 10: Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation

Lecture 11: Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well

Lecture 12: The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step

Lecture 13: More on Scattering

Lecture 14: Resonance and the S-Matrix

Lecture 15: Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1

Lecture 16: Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2

Lecture 17: More on Central Potentials

Lecture 18: "Hydrogen" and its Discontents

Lecture 19: Identical Particles

Lecture 20: Periodic Lattices Part 1

Lecture 21: Periodic Lattices Part 2

Lecture 22: Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors

Lecture 23: More on Spin

Lecture 24: Entanglement: QComputing, EPR, and Bell's Theorem