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Design and Technology - J310
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Free Design and Technology - J310 study notes for Cambridge OCR GCSE (9-1) students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Identifying requirements and existing practice
Exploring the context of a design solution
Usability, ergonomics and anthropometrics
Critiquing existing products: opportunities and constraints
New and emerging technologies in design practice
Wider issues, design thinking and communication
Impacts of new technologies: industry, people, environment
Sources of energy for products and systems
Environmental, social and economic influences
Graphical techniques for communicating design ideas
Design approaches and collaboration
Material categories
Papers and boards
Natural and manufactured timber
Ferrous and non-ferrous metals and alloys
Thermo and thermosetting polymers
Textile fibres and fabrics
Modern, smart, composite and technical materials
Design engineering: electronic and mechanical components
Material considerations
Properties and selection of materials and components
Sources, origins and processing of materials
Lifecycle, recycling, reuse and disposal
Stock forms, standard components and units
Technical understanding
Structural integrity: forces, stresses and reinforcement
Finishes and surface treatments
Motion, forces and mechanical devices
Electronic systems: inputs, outputs and programmable components
Manufacturing processes and techniques
Iterative models, mock-ups and toiles
Wastage, addition, deforming and reforming
Accuracy: marking out, jigs and tolerances
Digital design tools: CAD, CAM and CAE
Scales of production and industrial processes
Disruptive technologies in manufacturing
Viability of design solutions
Cost of materials and commercial viability
Stakeholder needs and marketability
Calculating quantities, costs and sizes
Mathematics in design and technology
Decimals, standard form and metric units
Ratios, fractions and percentages
Surface area, volume and tolerances
Handling data: tables, pie charts and bar charts
Plotting and interpreting graphs
Translating between graphical and numeric form
Geometry and graphical representation
Angular measures, triangles and symmetry
2D and 3D forms, isometric and orthographic views
Areas of triangles and rectangles, area scale factor
Surface area and volume of cubes and cuboids
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