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WAEC WASSCE course

Technical Drawing

WAEC WASSCE

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Topics

  • Drawing materials and equipment, types of drawing and applications

    Standard size drawing A2 ISO board and drawing sheet, set squares, drawing instruments, protractor and T-square.

  • Lines, lettering and dimensioning

    Types of lines and their uses. Types and styles of lettering, title blocks and border lines. These should conform to BS 1192 and BS 308A.

  • Division of lines and its applications

    Dividing into a given number of equal parts or proportion and other simple exercises involving mathematical problems.

  • Scales and their uses

    Plain and diagonal scales, constructions and their applications, including scale of chords.

  • Tangents and tangency

    Construction and application of principles of tangency to spanner, anchors and other tools.

  • Loci

    Definition and construction of straight line, circle, ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, helix, trochoids (inferior and superior) spiral, cycloid, hypocycloid, involutes and link mechanisms.

  • Lines in space and planes

    Location of points and lines in space. True length and angle of inclination of a line. Intersecting lines, plane relationships and traces. Types of planes and edge views of planes.

  • Pictorial drawing: isometric, oblique, perspective

    Isometric scales and circles, oblique scales and curves. One and two points perspective, including free hand sketching.

  • Auxiliary projections

    Prisms, cones, cylinder, cube, pyramid (right and oblique), including second auxiliary projection.

  • Sectional views and true shapes

    True shape of sections of prisms, cylinders pyramids and cones, (ellipse, parabola, hyperbola, circle and triangle).

  • Development of surfaces

    Surfaces of right and oblique pyramids, prisms, cylinders, cones and their truncated parts and frustum .Transition pieces.

  • Forces: co-planer,con-current and parallel

    Graphical determination of resultant, using Bow's notation. Equilibrant and reaction using triangle and polygon of forces.

  • Shearing force and bending moment diagrams

    Simple supported beams and cantilevers with concentrated and uniformly distributed loads.