Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

5. Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

6. What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

7. What does a black flag mean?

8. What is the diameter of the outside skidpad circle?

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

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

1.

The following parts are part of the Shutdown Circuit (Multiple choice)

2. What is the diameter of the outside skidpad circle?

3. Which of the following requirements is a must for all types of vehicles, when moving the vehicle on the competition site?

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

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

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

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

8. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 69 points. Your team received 33 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

9. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 24 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

10. How many pages of text are allowed in the Engineering Design Report? (Multiple choice)

11. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

12. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

13. 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 (?, ?).

14. An EV team without driverless components have 9 parts of scrutineering to pass before being allowed to compete on track.

15. 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.

16. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 5.3 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.

17. You want to use this shutdown button left and right between the main hoop and the main hoop bracings. Is this application rules compliant? (Multiple Choice)

18.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

20.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

3. 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?

4. Fred, the racing alpaca, has made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight to improve his time in Acceleration. Assume that the traction force remains the same, is constant over the entire Acceleration, and that drag or other resistances can be neglected.
How much weight must he lose at least to improve his time by 13 %? Answer in % and round to the nearest one.

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

6. Consider a digital LVTTL signal from your pedalbox to your main control unit. The length / of the cable inbetween is 5m. Your motor controllers introduce a noise of 0.15 V per meter cable. To correct for that noise, you introduce 74LVC1G34, non-inverting buffers into the cable.
The purpose of the buffer is to take a signal, to which a certain amount of noise has been added so that it would no longer meet the input specification of the static discipline, and clean it up so that it once again meets the output specification of the static discipline.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffers, as well as the gates shown, obey the following static discipline:

What is the minimum number of non-inverting LVTTL buffers required to connect inbetween in oder to ensure correct operation?

7. Coco, the three-legged cat with a mass of 3.5 kg, is standing still on a horizontal frictionless surface. While playing with a ball of yarn, having a mass of 0.05 kg, Coco kicks it backwards with one of her three legs so hard that the ball of yarn reaches a speed of 2.3 m/s.
The resulting speed of Coco is:

8. The TS of an EV can be simplified to be
an ideal TS energy storage and
an unshielded TS cable running through free air.

The ideal TS energy storage consists of the following parts:
an ideal voltage source V0 supplying 600 V DC at any load
an ideal resistor Ri of 28.5 mΩ which combines all resistances in the high current path of the TS energy storage, such as the cell, contact, busbar, wiring, fuse, and outlet connector resistances
an ideal circuit-breaker as the main fuse having an appropriate DC voltage rating and a characteristic such that the instantaneous tripping current is 10 times the rated current

The TS cable has the following properties:
the cross-section A is 2×6 mm2
the length l is 10 m
the specific conductivity κ is 56 m/(Ω*mm2)
a 30 % increase in the wire’s resistance covers the thermal behavior and all other effects during a short-circuit event
Select the rated current In and breaking capability Icn of the TS energy storage circuit-breaker, such that
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire triggers instantaneous tripping
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire can be interrupted
the maximum possible rated current is chosen, although the value might be well above the typical continuous current rating of the cable
available values for the rated current In have a step of 10 A (e.g. 10 A, 20 A, 30 A)
the minimum possible breaking capability is chosen
available values of the breaking capability Icn have a step of 10 kA (e.g. 40 kA, 50 kA, 60 kA)
Give the rated current In in A and the breaking capability Icn in kA in the following format: In, Icn e.g. 123, 456

9. 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

10. The truss structure shown in the figure is loaded with the forces F1, F2 and F3. The truss structure is supported in points A and B, as shown. Each segment of the truss structure is assumed to have no mass and infinite stiffness.
Identify the zero-force members in the structure under the given load and indicate them by placing a check mark.
You may select one or more answers.

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

2. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

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

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

1. 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

2. The following processes have to be measured by the AMS. (Multiple choice)

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

4. 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)

5. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

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

7. Which of the following statements is false regarding the difference between Lead-based batteries, Nickel-based batteries and Lithium-based batteries?

8. Which of the following statements about the Tractive System Accumulator are wrong? (Multiple choice)

9. You have an electric car with these specifications:

• ten 12V batteries
• constant velocity of 80 km/h
• flat road (friction 1.2kN -> aerodynamic load included)
• load for battery 160 Ah
• efficiency of 80% (Motor)

How far can you drive with one load? Give answer to nearest whol number in km.

10. 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

1. Calculate the force Fc working at point C. Give answer in kN rounded to one decimal place.

Forces at point A: Rax = 3kN, Ray = 9kN, Ma = 10kN/m

2. 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.

3. You would like to drink a cup of very hot coffee with milk early in the morning, but you
are in a hurry and have only 5 minutes until you have to leave for work. At which time
after brewing should you add the cold milk to the coffee and stir in order to decrease the
temperature of the mixture as much as possible:
a) 0 minutes (immediately),
b) 2 minutes, or
c) 4 minutes?
Suppose that the stirring can be done instantaneously and that you need the last one
minute for drinking.

brew temperature C = 80 ◦C, temperature of milk = M = 10 ◦C, room temperature
0 = 20 ◦C, volume of coffee VC = 300 ml, volume of milk VM = 100 ml, specific heat
capacity of coffee cC = 4180 J/(kgK), specific heat capacity of milk cM = 3500 J/(kgK).

Please enter only the letter of the corresponding answer

4. 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.

5. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 2.78 J/s. The lorry drives for 36 mins. Calculate the energy transferred in kJ rounded to three decimal places.

6. A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number

7. Calculate the maximum possible cornering speed (in kph) for the following FSAE car when going through a 20 m radius corner.

m = 260kg; cl *A * Rho = -6 kg/m; Tyre coefficient of friction = 1.5; g = 9.81 m/s^2.

The vehicle can be treated as a point mass, driving resistances neglected. Round to 1 decimal

8. 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.

9. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 9.6 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 1.9 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.

10. Calculate the gravitational potential energy of a 4 kg object at 15 m above Earth’s surface with gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg. Give answer to three significant figures in J.