Quiz Preparation

1. What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

2. How many dynamic events can one team compete in during a competition?

3. What is the minimum allowed static ground clearance, including driver?

4. How many percentage of points is the Demonstration and Structure in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

5. How many points are assigned for the pitch video in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

6. What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

7. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

8. What does the yellow flag mean during the driving disciplines?

9. How many points are assigned for the Overall Vehicle Concept in the Engineering Design Event? (Multiple choice)

10. How long is water sprayed on the car during the rain test?

1. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

2.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

3. Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.9 secs but goes off course once and knocks over two cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 73.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

4. How many percentage of points is the Demonstration and Structure in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

5. Your team recieves 59.3 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 71.9 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

6. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

7. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

8. What is the minimum score for the third place in the Business Plan finals (with three finalists)?

9. Suppose that 28 teams particpate in the CV category and your team is one of them, there are 6 Busniess Finalist teams among them. The team with the highest points not reaching the finals has 67 points, your team recieved 59 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Give answer to one decimal place

10. What does the yellow and red striped flag mean during Endurance and Autocross Event?

11.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

12. What is not a ’system‘ in the Cost Reports Bill of Material?

13. The car is tipped to 60° during the tilt test?

14. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.9 secs and that was the fastest overall time. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

15. What is the maximum amount of points a EV team can recieve at an event?

16. How many points are assigned for the pitch video in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

17. What is the area of the cockpit opening template (including the area allowed for the steering) in square inches rounded to one decimal place?

18. What is the maximum number of drivers allowed to compete at an event?

19. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 6.0 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

20. The length of the acceleration track is 75m. Hypothetically the acceleration of the cars is constant, and linear, without slip. The vehicle starts from the starting line of the Acceleration track and then covers 75m. At the finish line, the speed of the racing car is 108 km/h.

How much time (in secs) is needed for the car complete the Acceleration Event and what was the acceleration of the car ( in m/s^2)? Give the answers as whole numbers sparated by a comma (?, ?).

1. The sequence x[n]=(-1)^n is obtained by sampling the continuouse-time sinusoidal signal x(t)= cos(w0t) at 1-ms intervals, i.e.,

Determine the three smallest distinct possible values of w0 as a multiple of nx10^3 in the following format: w0 1, w0 2, w0 3, e.g 1, 2, 3

2. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

3. A single-cylinder four-stroke engine with a total displacement of 623.7 cm3 has the following theoretical design: piston stroke s = 52 mm, connecting rod length l = 66 mm, piston diameter d = 38 mm. The ignition timing point is given as Sk = 2.0 mm before TDC.
Calculate the ignition timing point in ° crankshaft before TDC. Round to one decimal.

4. According to the FS Rules and the competition handbook: Which statements are true?

5.

The figure shows a block diagram of a dynamic system.
What is the overall transfer function of the system?
Mark the correct answer.

6.

The figure shows internal single walls of the TSAC and their cutouts.
Which of these walls are rules compliant? Mark all correct answers.

7. Given is a parallel-plate capacitor with area A, separated by a uniform gap of thickness d1 filled with a dielectric with permittivity ε. At time t1, the voltage of the capacitor is V1. The capacitor is not connected to any electrical network.
How much energy is needed to change the plate spacing to d2 = 4 × d1?

8.

The figure shows a simplified quarter vehicle modal. The drive torque T(M) is the input, the wheel speed W is the output of the system. The torque due to the acceleration of the vehicle is modelled by the constant disturbance d. I models the inertia of the wheel and s is the complex variable of the Laplace transform.

Which statements are correct? Mark all correct answers.

9. A horizontal pipe increases from cross-section 1 with A1 = 2.55 cm2 to cross-section 2 with A2 = 7.1 cm2. In cross-section 1 there is a pressure of p1 = 1.2 bar and a flow rate of v1 = 5 m/s. The density of water is 997 kg/m3.
Calculate the pressure in bar in cross-section 2 for the flowing water. Round to two decimals.

10. Your vehicle has its right-hand base coordinate frame defined with the x-axis pointing forward into the driving direction and the z-axis upwards.
A camera is positioned on the vehicle as follows, in the vehicle coordinate frame:
x = 500 mm, y = 160 mm, z = 1140 mm
and the Euler angles ZY′X′′
roll = 100°, pitch = 0°, yaw = 90°
Assume the camera has no distortion, a resolution of 1280 px × 1080 px, and the principal point (cx and cy) and the focal lengths (fx and fy) are given by:
cx = 636 px, cy = 548 px, fx = 241 px, fy = 238 px
The point (u, v)0 is defined to be (u, v)0 = (-cx, -cy) as commonly used.
Within the camera image plane, z-axis in viewing direction, an object center is detected at pixel:
u = 795 px, v = 467 px
Another sensor determines the euclidian distance of the object to the camera frame as:
d = 2.7 m
Calculate the 3D position of the object in the vehicle coordinate frame in meter. Round to three decimals. Give the solution in the following format: x, y, z, e.g. 1.234, 5.678, 9.012

1. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

2. In which cases will team members be denied their on-site member pass?
Mark all correct answers!

3. According to the FS Rules and the competition handbook: Which statements are true?

4. In the following there are multiple statements abount the rules. Which statements are correct?

1. How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

2. The previous season you could recuperate only 27% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 69% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 6.3 kWh of energy in your accumulator during the last season, how much energy must your new accumulator have, if you assume, that it’s the same length and speed? Give answer in kWh

3. You want to drive with a Lithium Polymer Cell with 3.2 Ah and weighing 70 g. Which of the following configurations would be allowed by the rules? Hint: Unorm = 3.7 V, Umax = 4.2 V

4. Which of the following statements about LV battery packs with lithium based chemistry other than LiFePo4 is not true?

5. Three inductors are connected as shown in the following figure:

Given that L1 = 2L2, find L1 and L2 such that the equivalence inductance is L = 0.7 H.
Give your answers in Henry, rounded to three decimal places separated by a comma (L1, L2)

6. Which of these HV- and LV-components have to be fire-retardant? (Multiple Choice)

7. Your BSPD has been triggered although the driver did not touch the driving pedal. What could have gone wrong? (multiple choice)

8. A capacitor with a capacitance of 100 μF is currently charged to a voltage of 199.8V. How much additional energy is needed to charge it to a voltage of 301.4V. Give answer to 4 significant figures in Joules

9. A thin circular, isolated wire made of copper with radius R lies on a table with its ends
connected to a Volt meter. Another, straight wire lies exactly along a diameter of the
circular wire, connected to an alternate current source i(t) = I0 sin(wt).
The experimental setup is shown in the following Figure:

Which effective voltage Ueff does the Volt meter display?
R = 10 cm, maximum current I0 = 1 A, f = 50 Hz.
Give your answer in Volts with three decimal places

10. Your head of powertrain has found a battery cell with excellent specifications and yet cheap. He decides upon a 142s2p accumulator configuration using the cells with a capacity of 5.8 Ah. The manufacturer specifies an internal impedance of 1.5 mOhm. However, after a while you notice the cells are of horrible quality and their real capacity varies significantly leading to an unbalanced accumulator.

He performed experiements to find an approximation of the cells SoC relation to their open-circuit voltage (EMF) as shown in the following figure:

Assume due to imbalance, exactly half of the accumulators cells are at 40% SoC and half at 80% SoC. What current will be drawn at the maximum allowed power usage? Give answer in Amps to nearest whole number

1. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 8.0 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 2.0 m/s. At what time does it reach this height on the way down? Give both answers separated by a comma to one decimal place.

2. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.

3. An air as an ideal gas expands adiabatic from a volume of V1 = 1,00l with its pressure of p1 = 10^5 Pa to 1/10 of its original pressure. What volume V2 (in litres) does the gas reach after it’s expansion? Round to two decimal places

4. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

5. A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 300 km/h, μF = 0.15, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

6. During last year acceleration a top speed of 100 km/h was reached. Due to big improvements in the new drivetrain, the new vehicle reaches a top speed of 120 km/h. The aerodynamics chief has some worries about the stability of the rear wing bracing due to the higher aerodynamics load. Given the geometry below, by how much % does the bearing force in point A change in comparison to last year? (The aerodynamic package did not change and therefore some values can be assumed for both vehicles). Give answer rounded to one decimal place.

CL=3.8     CD=1.2     A=1 m²     rho=1.1 kg/m³     L1=50 mm     L2= 100 mm     H1= 125 mm     H2= 165mm

7. Calculate the Normal force on the rear left tyre during the first skidpad lap. You can assume, that your vehicle is in a steady-state condition and that there is no longitudinal acceleration. Further it can be assumed, that all 4 wheels have a lateral grip coefficient of 1.4. You can use the centerline radius stated in the rules. Following information regarding the vehicle are given. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons.

m = 220 kg

Cl = 3.8

A = 1 m^2

Rho = 1.1 kg/m^3

Wheelbase: L = 1.53

Trackwidth:t = 1.2 m

Height of CG: h = 0.2 m

Weight distribution/COP: 50%

8. How much current flows when 99 C passes down a wire in 11 s? Give answer in amps as a whole number.

9. The Wet Skid Pad World Record was set at FSN2019 by TU Delft. They managed to set a time of 4.901 for the left circle and a time of 5.031 for the right circle. Assume the run was completed perfectly along the center line of the circles. What was their average speed during this record run? Give answer to two decimal places in mph.

10. A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.