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Engineering and Manufacturing Materials quiz - CCEA GCSE quiz

16questions. Pick an answer and you'll see why right away.

  1. What is the main element in every ferrous metal?

  2. Which ferrous metal is hardest and best for cutting tools?

  3. Why do ferrous metals rust?

  4. Which property best explains why aluminium is used for aircraft parts?

  5. Brass is an alloy of which two metals?

  6. What is an alloy?

  7. What happens to a thermoplastic when it is heated?

  8. Which of these is a thermosetting plastic?

  9. Carbon fibre reinforced polymer is best described as a:

  10. Which property of ceramics makes them suitable for cutting tool tips?

  11. A shape memory alloy is an example of a:

  12. Ductility is the ability of a material to be:

  13. Which pair correctly contrasts the two properties?

  14. Tensile stress is calculated as:

  15. A force of 2000 N acts on a bar of area 1.0 times 10 to the power minus 5 square metres. What is the stress?

  16. Young's modulus measures a material's: