Leaving Certificate Physics Notes

These notes treat of the Leaving Certificate Physics course. Only the most important
parts of any topic are included; as such, these notes form 'the minimum you need to
know to get an A1'. Clear diagrams are included to illustrate important material in the
text, especially in Light 1: Geometrical Optics with its inherently graphical nature. It
is important to note that significant emphasis is placed on the theoretical part of the
syllabus: each student's own experiment copybook should be their keystone for that
aspect of the course. However, for the sake of completeness appendix B forms a concise
overview of the mandatory experiments, with particular emphasis on those salient points
which frequently crop up in exams. Moreover, the Applied Electricity option has been
omitted since seldom do students warm to it, and indeed very few teachers cover it; the
particle physics option is included instead in the Modern Physics section.