Introducing an exciting and comprehensive companion for the new Leaving Certificate Physics specification!

This fantastic textbook is designed to be engaging and to provide students with a complete, structured learning package for both Ordinary and Higher Levels of the new course.

Physics in the world is a particular focus. As well as explaining the science behind the technologies that underpin our world and its future, students will explore their real-world applications and the economic, ecological and ethical considerations they raise.

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Here is what makes it stand out

Comprehensive coverage of the five strands of the new Leaving Certificate Physics curriculum, at Ordinary and Higher Levels, including:

• Dedicated chapters covering the Nature of Science unifying strand of the Physics course.
• Curriculum specifications covered clearly indicated, chapter by chapter.
• Introductions to each chapter, looking at the historical and conceptual context to the science, discussing the relevant discoveries and the men and women who made them.
• Detailed, step-by-step explanations of all concepts reinforced using real-world examples and analogies to support students in accessing content.
• Easy to follow, step-by-step solutions for sample questions covering each topic.
• Questions at graded levels of difficulty to support student ownership of their own progress in learning.
• Fully worked solutions to all those questions accessible online via QR codes or go to my.cjfallon.ie.
• Suggested demonstrations of key concepts to encourage active student engagement.
• Research questions to prompt and stimulate students’ own researches and support their practice as they develop their skills for the additional assessment component of the course.
• Pull-out boxes for students to explore interesting, sometimes quirky real-world aspects of the science topics they are studying.
• Links to external videos, interactive simulations and articles to support student understanding: just click on the QR codes or go online to my.cjfallon.ie.
• A separate Activity book to allow students to practise skills and reinforce learning.

What’s in it for teachers?

The Physics Book provides comprehensive support for teachers in the classroom and a rich variety of resources to help in planning lessons and bringing them to life, including:

• Suggested schemes of work, with detailed guidance for covering all the learning outcomes of the Physics curriculum.
• Experimental set-ups for investigations that require the gathering of primary data. 
• Suggestions for how to support students to develop their own experiments in preparation for the additional assessment component of the course.
• Comprehensive instructions for demonstrations to support explanation of concepts.
• Suggested questions to prompt classroom discussion.
• Suggested challenges to engage students in problem solving and critical thinking.
• PowerPoint presentations for each chapter.
• End-of-chapter tests for checking progress and understanding.

The authors

Mark McGowran studied in DCU and Trinity College. After stints teaching in Cambodia, London and Greystones, he now teaches Physics in Mount Temple Comprehensive School in Dublin.

Stephen Grimes is an experienced educator in Physics, Maths, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, and brings a wealth of expertise to this comprehensive book.