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Just a quick note to thank you for your great site and another even bigger thank you for your amazing attitude to sharing the stuff you have and know freely with others....You must be a really nice man!!!!!  (Or maybe just completely nuts!!) whichever no matter, thanks again
S
(stressed mother teaching sick teenager at home!!!!)
PS...if your site is 'amateur in appearance' then bring it on.....easy to use, to the point, no messing...just what the world and me needs.
18/03/2010

I wish my students all learned
(i) correlation does not imply causation
and
(ii) the plural of anecdote is note data!
Thanks as always for maintaining a great site.
Kind regards,
Claire
14/03/2010

Noel,
I'd just like to THANK YOU for the amazing website!!
I'm a 6th year Physics student and thanks to your notes, doing amazingly! Best thing: the questions split into the sections!!
Seriously, very helpful!!
 And I'm not alone. Our Physics teacher and other students agree.. :D
 So, thank you so so much again!
You're great.
Miriam
10/02/2010

Hi Noel,
I hope you're keeping well.
I have a few questions for you - if get a chance to answer them I'd be very grateful!
Firstly I'd like to thank you for going to the trouble of compiling the L.C. questions and answers, chapter by chapter on your website. Thats been on my wish list of 'things to do' for a long time, and I probably would never have got around to doing it. It's a fantastic teaching resource - well done I'll be using them a lot. I'm taking you at your word when you say "Feel free to use these as you please...Life is too short..." I have been giving handouts of your notes to students.
Many thanks!
D
07/02/2010

Noel,
THANK YOU... THANK YOU... THANK YOU!!!
I have been using thephysicsteacher website for the past few months and it has been a lifesaver!!
Though a physics graduate, I am not a natural physicist (maths is much more my comfort zone) and before I found the site, would get very bogged down in the text book and frustrated with setting up experiments.
As for the links - they are fantastic.  We've only started getting IT into classrooms & labs and it is so helpful to have access to great resources.  If only we could use YouTube!!

And as for the general layout of the website - its simplicity is perfect and so easy to navigate; nothing amateur about it.
Cheers
Pauline
04/02/2010

Well done and thanks, I'm a newly qualified physics teacher and i think this is the best web site ever, well done again
John
15/12/09

Hi Noel,
I'm a student struggling with Physics and now that i have your notes I'm flying!
Just couldn't let it go without saying thanks! They're Brilliant!
Cheers,
Gareth
27/11/09

Noel, congratulations on an excellent and helpful website.
An enormous amount of work has gone into it - thank you for your generosity in sharing with other teachers.
Maura
11/22/09

Noel,
I had to email you to complement you on your website. It is a real help to me as a Leaving cert physics student! I sat down to type out all the definations out of my book and i was nearly in tears when google brought up your website! You have made my Mid term study plan a lot easier and now i can spend more time practicing out questions rather than typing out the defs!
Thank you so much for providing such a brilliant service!
Jerome
23/10/2009

Noel,
I've just discovered your website and hats off on a great, simple website. Very effective.
I'm curious to know how you arrived with such good quality podcasts - in terms of audio.
I liked you approach - have a list of links to content. There is lots of content out there so there's no point in re-inventing the wheel.
The value add that you give the students is in organising this into a list of 'quality' links with your own impeccable notes in Word.
Many thanks & keep up the good work.
Thanks,
Brendan
21/10/2009

I’ve just been on your website thanks you I now know how to use a multimeter,
I teach chemistry and maths.
Have a lot os physic equipment which I don't know how to use
All the best ,
G
13/10/2009

Hi,
I am a physics, maths and applied maths teacher in a secondary school in Dublin.
I came across your site the other night while "googling" and I wanted to pass on my compliments.  I think it is fantastic.  It must have taken you years to compile all of the information!! 
Best wishes,
L

As a daily user of your wonderful website i feel only obliged to send you this email thanking you for posting such useful and concise information, free for all who are half interested in getting on well in the leaving cert physics paper. The YouTube videos provide a glimpse of the fun that must be experienced in a genuinely interested classroom of students. Any recognition of you work is well deserved (by the way well done with thephysicteacher.ie mention in the Irish times).
Thank you providing the information (now an essential part of my study).
Yours in physics,
L.C. Student , Roscommon.

To whom it may concern ( i couldnt find your name on website)
i would like to start by thanking you for making my life so much easier for at least the last year when i came upon the your website-i down load all the notes and have them at hand at all times for extra information.  i am a teacher in ________, knowing nobody in the area, we tried to set up a networking system in the area but not many showed up on the 1st occassion so it turned out there wasnt a second occassion and i didnt make many contacts!! when i found your website  it answered so many of my questions
Next comes my confession!!
i was using your topic examples  for my 6th year class since september for revision and they loved it-with the marking schemes attached i could give them alot of homework and mark it quiet easily and now that the format of your website has changed i will be using if as an excellent resource also.
There is always the worry teaching in a small school that physics will be discontinued due to cutbacks so im giving it socks at the moment
BUT IM SO GRATEFUL FOR THE WONDERFUL RESOURCE
Thank you so much
C

Dear sir/madam,
I can't find your name on the site but i am finding your site quite useful. I am a student teacher on my second year teaching practice placement. i am almost finished it now but there was one website that i found particularly useful but i haven't seen it on your links. it is www.explorelearning.com . It contains lots of different science demo animations. each "gizmo" can be used for five minutes every day for free, otherwise you have to pay for them. I thought this might be a good addition to your site. Keep up the good work!
Yours sincerely
A

Hello there
my name is T and i am a physics and biology teacher in Cork.
i was directed to your website  by another teacher in the school i work in whose position i took over and i am amazed at the wealth of info you have for the leaving cert physics course.
This is my first full year teaching the irish physics curriculum and i have used some of your downloads to ease the burden on myself (i do realise this sounds very selfish but its the truth!).
i noticed that you are putting together notes for Biology and JC science also and since i have pilfered some of your work i would like to pay you back as it were and offer you anything i have which may be of use to you and other teachers?
if i can help then i would love to.
thanks again for the priceless website
T

Hello!
I don't normally bother with contacting the people who go to so much bother setting up revision sites on the net for Leaving Cert subjects so this is the first time! I just wanted to tell you how much help your site has been. It's been an absolute life-saver!
My teacher in school is grand, but we only skim through each chapter and it's really a 'teach yourself as best you can' lark. Halfway through fifth year last year, when stumbling and stuggling through waves I came across your site and I've never been so thankful! With it I've been able to completely understand concepts that before I just barely understood and go ahead in the book when the rest of the class was still going over old stuff.
I really like the way you explain everything, it's clear, to the point, only what's necessary and above all else interesting. Especially the extra credit stuff!!
 
Thank you for creating this in your own spare time. because of the site my teacher reckons I'm on track for an A in June and physics in now one of my favourite subjects! The only question I have is why haven't you published your notes as a revision book? Seriously, I have the Revise Wise Book but your site was still more helpful! I'd definitely recommend you site to anyone who asks.
Thanks again, you've made this little 'pop quiz' we're being forced to sit in June a little less painful!
Anyways, better hit the books again now. Ugh!
Thanks,
Rebecca.

There is an excellent physics website students can use in their revision – www.thephysicsteacher.ie, the website also provides excellent revision materials for students studying Applied Maths.
The Irish Times, April 2009

Just Wanted to Say you’re an ABSOLUTE HERO!!!
Thanks for the notes and the podcast, just what I needed  for the Summer 5th Year Exams.
 Oh ye, and a tip, you could make some money from your site if you Tendered for Advertising on your Site,
 (ie. those ads you see at the side and at the yop of so many sites)
 As it is Such a Class Site, that and the fact it came up Number 2 on Google!!! Just An Idea!!!
 Thanks Again!!!
 Conor

Dear Mr Physics Teacher,
Thanks a heap for the site, I'm currently doing LC physics myself and I've found your site very helpful, (I'm one of those messy disorganized students...)
. . .
Anyway, thanks very much for all the slog you've put into the site, it's much appreciated. :)
Ewan

Hello,
I am currently in 6th just weeks away from the leaving cert. I would just like to thank you for all your notes, everything is all so very useful. My only regret is that I didn't know about this earlier, maybe in the start of 6th year because it is so helpful. I will be informing my teacher about this site and encouraging him to use it on the next pupils. I think you should advertise this site, because there's other physics students in need of all this.
Thank you again, it is very much appreciated.
F

Thank you Mr Cunningham (I assume) for all you put into the site, I (and most of my friends) found it a really valuable resource for studying both applied maths and physics, and again I just can't thank you enough.
Chris

Hi,
Just wanted to say thanks for making the website and youtube videos.
I am studying for Leaving Cert Applied Maths and there isn't a lot of help available but your videos definitely are a big help. Thanks.
Best Regards,
James.

Hi ya,
I’ve just returned to work after a few years off and man do i feel rusty. Anyway I just wanted to email you and say that your website is fantastic, Thanks for doing it its a great idea - you must be so organised and Id say your students are very lucky to have you as a teacher.
Another Physics Teacher
F

Thank you for making this tremendous amount of work available.
I certainly will use it and most definitely "rob" some of it!
Much appreciated
Dominic

Hi PhysicsTeacher.ie,
I am a biology/ chemistry teacher in Co.Louth and happened upon your site. It is an excellent resource. I was just wondering what was your motivation to create such a resource and how long it took to create it and amass the information?
 Regards and thanks,
K

Hello
Want to say I am finding your website of great use as this is my first year teaching physics to leaving cert.
Thanks
Michelle

Hello
I am a physics and maths teacher and I “fell” into yr website by accident about 4 months ago, and I want to tell you that it is absolutely terrific.
I have referred it on to my other physics colleague in the school and we make great use of it.
 
Thks for all the work that you have obviously put into it.
It’s really really good!
D
18/04/08