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Lecture 5: Operators and the Schrödinger Equation

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Description: In this lecture, Prof. Zweibach gives a mathematical preliminary on operators. He then introduces postulates of quantum mechanics concerning observables and measurement. The last part of the lecture is devoted to the origins of the Schrödinger equation.

Instructor: Barton Zweibach

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