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SQA-NATIONAL-5 · National 5 (SQA) · aligned to SQA.
- SQA National 5 Engineering Science Area 1 Engineering contexts and challenges: disciplines, sustainability, energy and the assignment
A deep-dive SQA National 5 Engineering Science guide to Engineering contexts and challenges. Covers the main engineering disciplines, the environmental, social and economic impact of engineering and what sustainability means, energy sources and transformations, and how the question paper and assignment assess the course.
📖 11 min readNational 5 - SQA National 5 Engineering Science Area 2 Electronics and control: systems, analogue and digital electronics, and programmable control
A deep-dive SQA National 5 Engineering Science guide to Electronics and control. Covers the universal systems model, analogue electronics with Ohm's law and power, the voltage divider with the LDR and thermistor, transistor switching, the operational amplifier, logic gates and truth tables, combinational logic, and programmable control with microcontrollers.
📖 13 min readNational 5 - SQA National 5 Engineering Science Area 3 Mechanisms and structures: forces, gears, pulleys, efficiency, work, pneumatics, structures and materials
A deep-dive SQA National 5 Engineering Science guide to Mechanisms and structures. Covers forces, mass and weight, levers and moments, gear and pulley drives, mechanical advantage and efficiency, work and power, pressure and pneumatics, structures with tension, compression and beam reactions, and material properties and selection.
📖 13 min readNational 5