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DESIGN AND TECHNOLOGY:
PRODUCT DESIGN
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Paper 1 Technical Principles
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Wednesday 5 June 2024 Afternoon Time allowed: 2 hours 30 minutes
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Materials For Examiner’s Use
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For this paper you must have:
normal writing and drawing instruments Question Mark
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a scientific calculator.
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Instructions 3–4
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Use black ink or black ball-point pen. Use pencil only for drawing. 5
Fill in the boxes at the top of this page.
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Answer all questions. 6
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the box around each page or on blank pages.
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this book. Write the question number against your answer(s).
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Do all rough work in this book. Cross through any work you do not want
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The maximum mark for this paper is 120.
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Answer all questions in the spaces provided.
0 1 Give three reasons why cellulose acetate is used in packaging.
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Reason 2 ________________________________________________________________________
Reason 3 ________________________________________________________________________
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0 2 Analyse and evaluate the suitability of using acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS)
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for the manufacture of a construction worker’s helmet shown in Figure 1.
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0 3 Identify the polymer stock form used for the following manufacturing processes.
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Injection Moulding ________________________________________________________________
Vacuum Forming _________________________________________________________________
Rotational Moulding ______________________________________________________________
0 4 Explain why thermochromatic pigment has been used in the child’s forehead
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thermometer shown in Figure 2.
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Figure 2
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