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SQA Advanced Higher Engineering Science Engineering project and analysis overview quiz quiz

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

  1. What percentage of the Advanced Higher Engineering Science course assessment is the project worth?

  2. What anchors the whole project and is the basis for the evaluation?

  3. Which of these is part of the engineering process followed in the project?

  4. What does a good project evaluation contain?

  5. What is a mathematical model of an engineering system?

  6. Why must a simulation be validated against real data?

  7. How is random uncertainty reduced?

  8. What is a systematic uncertainty?

  9. How do uncertainties combine when two quantities are multiplied or divided?

  10. On a graph of experimental data, what does the gradient of the best-fit line usually represent?

  11. Why is it useful to plot data so that it gives a straight line?

  12. What is the prefix m (milli) as a power of ten?

  13. What is the single most common arithmetic error in Advanced Higher Engineering Science calculations?

  14. Five readings have a maximum of 48.6 and a minimum of 48.1. What is the approximate random uncertainty in the mean (half the range over the number of readings)?

  15. Why does the project deserve as much attention as the written exam?

  16. A result is calculated as 200 W with combined percentage uncertainty of 5 per cent. What is the absolute uncertainty?