MIT 8.04 Quantum Mechanics I — Lecture Notes

Open-source lecture notes for MIT OCW 8.04 Quantum Mechanics I (Prof. Barton Zwiebach, 2016). Author: Daniel Wang
Advised by: Dr. Dimitri Dounas-Frazer (Lakeside School)
Compiled: Fall 2024 – May 2025 · 155 pages Download PDF

Contents

Notes follow the OCW lecture structure, covering:

1. Background
2. Matter waves
3. Operators & the Schrödinger equation
4. The wavefunction
5. Fourier analysis
6. Expectation values & eigenstates
7. Solving the Schrödinger equation
8. General properties
9. Harmonic oscillator
10. Scattering states
11. Scattering theory
12. Central potentials
13. Hydrogen atom
14. Toward matrix mechanics

Compiling

# from repo root (pdfLaTeX / XeLaTeX / LuaLaTeX all work with this project)
pdflatex main.tex
# re-run as needed for refs/TOC
pdflatex main.tex

Main file: main.tex. Chapter sources live in root/; figures in resources/images/.

License MIT © Daniel Wang

These notes are an independent study project and are not official MIT course materials. Based on publicly available MIT OpenCourseWare content.