Mechanics

Overview

Key facts

You will learn how to choose, use, maintain and repair the appropriate machinery for the job. This Mechanics course from Warnborough College will cover machinery ranging from cars to household equipment and tools. You will gain an understanding of working with machines of all different types.

You will also learn to:

• Understand different machinery
• How to service them

• How to extend their life by repairing them

We use machines so often in our daily lives that we sometimes take them for granted. When use machines – like our cars – we very rarely consider how they work. We only start to consider this question once they stop working.

Learning about mechanics can make you more aware of how to appropriately use and take care of the machines you own. You will be able to use them in a safe way and repair them when they need it.

Some machinery is relatively simple and easier to learn about, but other machines can be much more complex and will require far more learning and experience to properly understand.

This course lays a foundation for understanding and working with all machines, each lesson building upon what you learnt in the previous ones, gradually expanding your awareness and understanding of how and where engines can be used to power machines, and how different types of machines function.

Lesson Aims

• Explain how different types of engines and motors work.

• Describe the features that differentiate the quality and work capacity of engines.

• Describe the scope and nature of components of a machine.

• Explain different ways of converting the movement of energy to perform useful work tasks.

• Describe how machinery can deteriorate over time, and responses to both prevent and repair deterioration.

• Explain how engines and motors have their power output regulated.

• Explain the mechanisms used to slow or stop any form of motion by applying force.

• Describe machinery workshop tools and equipment, and explain their safe and appropriate use in maintaining and repairing machinery.