National 5 Engineering Science lesson slides
← Back to N5 Engineering ScienceBooklet 1 — Engineering Contexts & Systems
What engineers do, the impact of engineering, and reading a system as input → process → output.
Booklet 2 — Energy & Efficiency
Energy forms and transfers, work done, kinetic and potential energy, power, efficiency and energy audits.
Booklet 3 — Electronics & Analogue Control
Circuit symbols, Ohm's law, resistor networks, electrical power, input and output devices, voltage dividers and transistor control.
Booklet 4a — Logic & Digital Control
Analogue and digital signals, AND / OR / NOT gates, truth tables, Boolean expressions and designing logic for a control problem.
Booklet 4b — Programmable Control
Microcontrollers, flowchart symbols and programming structures, programming in real life, and building, testing and fixing a program.
Booklet 5 — Mechanisms & Drive Systems
Types of motion, levers and linkages, gear ratio, output speed and compound trains, belt and chain drives, and friction.
Booklet 6 — Pneumatics
Why engineers use pneumatics, cylinders, valves, pressure force and area, pneumatic circuits, and designing a circuit to a brief.
Booklet 7 — Structures & Materials
Forces and the triangle of forces, moments and beams, materials selection, stress and strain, and designing a structure to a brief.
Booklet 8 — Assignment Skills
How the assignment is structured, the core skills, the six task types, and sitting the mock under assessment conditions.
Sources & credits: slides written by Mr Stewart. Past-paper questions, extracted figures and marking instructions reproduced for educational use, © Qualifications Scotland (SQA). Deck icons drawn for this site.