In this lecture, Prof. Adams introduces wavefunctions as the fundamental quantity in describing quantum systems. Basic properties of wavefunctions are covered. Uncertainty and superposition are reiterated in the language of wavefunctions.

1. Introduction to Superposition
2. Experimental Facts of Life
3. The Wave Function
4. Expectations, Momentum, and Uncertainty
5. Operators and the Schrӧdinger Equation
6. Time Evolution and the Schrödinger Equation
7. More on Energy Eigenstates
8. Quantum Harmonic Oscillator
9. Operator Methods for the Harmonic Oscillator
10. Clicker Bonanza and Dirac Notation
11. Dispersion of the Gaussian and the Finite Well
12. The Dirac Well and Scattering off the Finite Step
13. Scattering Take 2
14. Resonance and the S-Matrix
15. Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum
16. Eigenstates of the Angular Momentum II
17. Central Potentials Take 2
18. "Hydrogen" and its Discontents
19. Identical Particles
20. Periodic Lattices - Part 1
21. Periodic Lattices - Part 2
22. Metals, Insulators, and Semiconductors
23. More on Spin
24. Entanglement — QComputing, EPR, and Bell
25. Experiment 2: Effective Mass

This course covers the experimental basis of quantum physics. Topics include: photoelectric effect, Compton scattering, photons, Franck-Hertz experiment, the Bohr atom, electron diffraction, de Broglie waves, and the wave-particle duality of matter and light. Introduction to wave mechanics: Schrödinger's equation, wave functions, wave packets, probability amplitudes, stationary states, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle, and zero-point energies. Solutions to Schrödinger's equation in one dimension: transmission and reflection at a barrier, barrier penetration, potential wells, the simple harmonic oscillator. Schrödinger's equation in three dimensions: central potentials and introduction to hydrogenic systems. The course is taught by three professors: Prof. Allan Adams, Prof. Matthew Evans, and Prof. Barton Zwiebach. It is the first course in the undergraduate Quantum Physics sequence, followed by 8.05 Quantum Physics II and 8.06 Quantum Physics III.