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Totally in Control
In this activity from Siemens, students explore the need for an automated control system in the context of a fairground ride.
Through the sequence of activities, students will:
- Identify how sequences of commands can be used to run equipment and how logic operation can respond to inputs and control outputs
- Apply ideas about circuits and energy transducers to using inputs in systems and ideas about forces to simple and complex situations
- Understand features of a system in terms of input, process and output, how the design of a system responds to a detailed brief and how a system can be modified to improve its performance.
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