Technology (Basic Facts)

by Colin Chapman (Author), M . Horsley (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1993

  $6.09

  Covers technology, including terms relating to computer-aided design, manufacturing, food technology and fabric technology. It continues to describe the tools and processes of contruction in wood and metal. Terms covered range from acetate to ray-tracing, from by-product to anthropometry and from brandfacer to reciprocating motion. This book is designed to appeal to both GCSE and SCE examinations.

• Used

  Paperback
  1988

  $3.25

  Part of the CDT series, this book looks at designing, basic graphics, technology in society, principles in control, materials and their applications, energy, electronics, digital electronics, mechanics, pneumatics, structures and project work. Technology offers options for project work and includes colour sections of illustrations for easier understanding. Each book in the series has been specifically written by teachers of the subject area and cover both the National Criteria and the relevant GCSE syllabuses. They provide the technological knowledge needed to undertake a wide range of projects and so it is assumed through out that the courses are activity-focused. Ideas are developed through all three books in the series and photographs and drawings show examples of the design process in the environment around us. Other features of the book include: a range of graded questions; examples of pupil's own work; a section on project work; a comprehensive index to help pupils work independently.