Your Exam

On the 10th May you will sit your S3 exam.

You need to know about:

Mechanisms:

• Different types of mechanisms
• Velocity Ratios
• Speed
• Uses, Advantages and disadvantages of different types of mechanism

Logic:

• AND, OR, NOT, NOR, NAND, XOR
• Truth tables
• Boolean expressions
• Logic circuits
• You need to be able to go between any of the above i.e. get a circuit from a Boolean expression or get a Boolean expression from a truth table.

Pneumatics:

• Name valves
• How to wire up different valves to control cylinders or produce air signals
• Cylinder calculations - F = PA and how to find area or diameter.

Programmable Control:

• Parts of a microprocessor
• Flowcharts
• PBASIC

Electronics Basics:

• Series Circuits
• Ohm's Law

Keep checking the blog in the second week of the holidays, more information will arrive when I am back from holiday!