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Unit 4: Producing and evaluating products
Quick questions on Materials and their properties in product design: VCE Product Design and Technologies
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What is properties, grouped?Show answer
Material properties fall into a few families. Knowing the vocabulary lets you specify precisely.
What is testing informs selection?Show answer
You do not select on a hunch; you test. Simple workshop tests, samples, and reference to specifications give evidence about strength, finish quality and how a material works. Recording these tests in your folio shows that your final choice rests on evidence, which is exactly what assessors reward over an unsupported assertion.
What is writing the justification?Show answer
Strong folio writing follows a chain: name the property, give the evidence (a test result or specification), and link it to a product requirement. Avoid bald claims like timber is strong. Strength relative to what, for what load, tested how, matters. Precision in the language of properties is what separates a confident material justification from a guess.
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