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Discover some of the most amazing machines on earth, focusing on the exciting world of transportation. Each title takes a detailed look at a different mode of transport, highlighting the most intriguing and amazing examples. These extremely informative books tell the reader when the given machine was invented, who invented it, how it's changed through the passage of time, and what creations we can expect to see in the future. * Contains exciting internet links which take children to the most...

This addition to the visually stimulating Sci-Hi series looks at the applications of science and new technologies to the field of cars & motorbikes and how they affect our lives. It looks at new materials, discoveries, and inventions and assesses their environmental impact.

Covers principles, applications, and issues pertaining to all major elecro-optical displays presently in use, with discussion of display evaluation characteristics and human factor topics. Coverage includes: liquid crystal (LC) display properties, matrix addressing, and photoaddressing issues; time-

This practical reference offers state-of-the-art coverage of speckle metrology and its value as a measuring technique in industry.;Examing every important aspect of the field, Speckle Metrology: surveys the origin of speckle displacement and decorrelation; presents procedures for deformation analysis and shape measurement of rough objects; explains particle image velocimetry (PIV), the processing of PIV records, and the design requirements of PIV equipment; discusses the applications of white li...

Exam board: WJEC EduqasLevel: GCSESubject: Design & TechnologyFirst teaching: September 2017First exams: Summer 2019Reinforce classroom learning and boost students' understanding of all materials with this textbook written for the WJEC Eduqas GCSE (9-1) Design & Technology specification.Written by leading D&T experts, this textbook will build your students' knowledge of the core principles, help to develop their designing and making skills and provide them with the opportunity to make sure they...

The "Designed for Success" series introduces a range of exciting vehicles. Each book includes information on: design and technology; performance; safety; manufacture; and leading models in a way that is accessible for a wide range of readers. The titles cover examples of vehicles whose design has been successful; provide case studies that look at design, manufacture and the performance of vehicles and include information of safety, including clothing. This title focuses on attack fighters.

A fascinating new series of biographies of important artists, writers and other creative people. Each title looks at a person's life, including their social background and aspects of their daily life, and examines the ways in which their work reflected or shaped social and cultural changes. Each book features: - panels including quotations and background information - pictures of their lives and works - a timeline of key events and significant works

That's nice! is the third of the context books for the key stage 3 national curriculum course, STEP 5-16 Design and Technology. It develops work on the design process, from initial ideas through to modelling and prototyping those ideas. The book focuses on the various stages of developing a new product, from initial thoughts to prototyping a product. It is also concerned with the aesthetic aspect of designing. The book contains many suggestions for projects and activities in different areas. T...

Food for Thought is the second context book to be published for key stage 3 of the national curriculum course, STEP 5-16 Design and Technology. It develops work on food products introduced in the Core text for key stage 3. The book focuses on the various stages of producing a new food product, from initial idea to product launch. It also discusses the use of systems. This is developed to enable pupils to design their own food production system as a stimulus for using mechanics, electronics, pneu...

From a device that makes sounds waves visible to a unique 'pomato' plant, these 100 imaginative and impressive science projects will impress judges and teachers alike - and astound all the kids in the school. Some of the experiments can be completed quickly, others take more time, thought, and construction, but every one uses readily available materials. Budding Einsteins can make their own plastic, build a working telescope, or choose from a range of ideas in electricity, ecology, astronomy, an...

Designed as a resource for botanists and all those interested in fungi, and suitable for the general reader or student looking for background reading, the focus of this text is the larger fungi; those which have an obvious fruiting body. Roy Watling MBE, a respected mycologist who has written widely on the subject of fungi, sheds light on these intriguing organisms in a clear, accessible text illustrated with colour photographs on every page. In a world without fungi, all the fallen trees, dead...

The "Designed for Success" series introduces a range of exciting vehicles. Each book includes information on: design and technology; performance; safety; manufacture; and leading models in a way that is accessible for a wide range of readers. The titles cover examples of vehicles whose design has been successful; provide case studies that look at design, manufacture and the performance of vehicles and include information of safety, including clothing. This title focuses on off-road vehicles.