Design and Technologies / Levels 9 and 10 / Technologies Contexts / Engineering principles and systems
Content description
Investigate and make judgements on how the characteristics and properties of materials are combined with force, motion and energy to create engineered solutions
Elaborations
explaining the way common machines combine properties of materials and force, motion and energy in, for example, cranes on building sites
examining and explaining the interaction between material properties and function of a common system, such as car brakes
analysing the relationship between materials of properties, forces and safety in engineered systems such as bridges
critiquing the effectiveness of the combinations of materials, forces, energy and motion in an engineered system such as a 3D printer
calculating forces, reactions and loads in structures
