Quantum Physics I (MIT 8.04)

Advanced Physics by MIT OpenCourseWare. 25 lectures, 33.4 hours. Covers: quantum mechanics wave function schrodinger equation uncertainty principle operators.

Lectures

  1. Lecture 1: Introduction to Superposition · 1 h 16 min
  2. Lecture 2: Experimental Facts of Life · 1 h 20 min
  3. Lecture 3: The Wave Function · 1 h 18 min
  4. Lecture 4: Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty · 1 h 20 min
  5. Lecture 5: Operators and the Schrödinger Equation · 1 h 23 min
  6. Lecture 6: Time Evolution and the Schrödinger Equation · 1 h 22 min
  7. Lecture 7: More on Energy Eigenstates · 1 h 16 min
  8. Lecture 8: Quantum Harmonic Oscillator · 1 h 21 min
  9. Lecture 9: Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator · 1 h 18 min
  10. Lecture 10: Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation · 1 h 22 min
  11. Lecture 11: Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well · 1 h 21 min
  12. Lecture 12: The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step · 1 h 24 min
  13. Lecture 13: More on Scattering · 1 h 23 min
  14. Lecture 14: Resonance and the S-Matrix · 1 h 24 min
  15. Lecture 15: Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 1 · 1 h 25 min
  16. Lecture 16: Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum Part 2 · 1 h 21 min
  17. Lecture 17: More on Central Potentials · 1 h 21 min
  18. Lecture 18: "Hydrogen" and its Discontents · 1 h 20 min
  19. Lecture 19: Identical Particles · 1 h 23 min
  20. Lecture 20: Periodic Lattices Part 1 · 1 h 24 min
  21. Lecture 21: Periodic Lattices Part 2 · 1 h 22 min
  22. Lecture 22: Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors · 1 h 27 min
  23. Lecture 23: More on Spin · 1 h 22 min
  24. Lecture 24: Entanglement: QComputing, EPR, and Bell's Theorem · 1 h 23 min
  25. William Slofstra:Tsirelson’s problem & an embedding theorem for groups arising from non-local games · 51 min

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