We present the solution of Schrödinger’s equation for time‐dependent quadratic potentials in terms of an Airy packet. We demonstrate new features of the Airy packet in light of its apparent unfamiliar properties discovered by Berry and Balazs (who found a nonspreading and accelerating Airy packet to be a unique solution to the free‐particle Schrödinger equation). Our solution, found using space‐time scale transformations, not only overcomes the packet’s tendency to accelerate, but also make it possible to spread or contract in time.

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