Leaving Certificate Physics Notes

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