Quiz Preparation

1. How many drivers are allowed to drive in each discipline?

2. What is BSPD short for?

3. What is the minimum diameter of the shutdown button in the cockpit?

4. What is the minimum height of the university name and the car number added together?

5. What is DNF short for?

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

7. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

8. How many percentage of points are the Finances in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

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

10.

Which of the following parts are not part of the Shutdown Circuit? (Multiple choice)

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

2. What does a black flag mean?

3. What is the minimum diameter of a shutdown button placed on the side of the vehicle behind the driver’s compartment?

4. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.1 secs but goes off course. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.6 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

5. 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

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

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

8. Each team must have two 0.8kg fire extinguishers.

9.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

10. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.3 secs but knocks down 5 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

11. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

12. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 250 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1000 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

13. What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

14. Teams who remove their vehicle from the event site after
the event has begun will be disqualified from the event.

15. What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

16. An official has the right to remove the scrutineering sticker from the car, if the car is no longer rule compliant.

17. How many events may a driver drive during a competition?

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

19.

A team can register up to how many Electrical System Officers?

20. Your team recieves 14.7 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 69.1 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

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

2. 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)

3. 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.

4. 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

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

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

7. 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

8. 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

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

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

1. A helicopter of mass 4200 kg is carrying a crate using a light extensible rope. The crate has a total mass of 800 kg, including its contents. The helicopter and crate are accelerating upwards at 2.0 ms^-2. What is the tension in the rope? Use gravititational field strength g is 9,81 N/kg. Air resistance can be ignored. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons

2. Your team is the first car at the design event during FSN2022 and it’s quite cold for this time of the year, 12 degrees C. To impress the judges, you decide to make some tea for them. What is the minimum required time to prepare the tea, knowing that you have to boil 4 tea cups of 370ml each and you have an electrical heater with a power of 500W. Give your answer to the nearest whole number in secs.

3. A water tank under a pressure of p = 117.72 kPa has three pipes connected to it, which are sealed 5 meters below the water surface by three plates with areas A₁, A₂, and A₃.
Task:
Sort the pressures p₁, p₂, and p₃ according to their magnitude.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. For a horizontally positioned, non-insulated steam pipe with a length of l=3 m and a diameter of d_a=0.1 the convective heat loss Q_point is to be calculated. The temperature of the surrounding air is θ_f=30∘C and that of the outer wall surface is θ_w=170∘C.

Input the result in kW and round to two decimal numbers seperated by a point without thr unit (example: 145.35)

8. A spring in a car’s suspension has elastic potential energy store 226 J. If the spring constant is 8.1N/mm, find the extension. Give answer in meters to three significant figures.

9. 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

10. Calculate the pull force on the plate in Newton. Round to 2 numbers seperated by a point (exanple: 9.13)