Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

5. What is DNF short for?

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

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

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

9. What is true about the Cones & Markings for Autonomous Running?

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

1. Can a team be eliminated from the Engineering Design Event by the judges, if every document of theirs was accepted and they are present at the Engineering Design Event?

2. What is the minium number of points your team can get when participating in th BPP finals?

3. How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

4. 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

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

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

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

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

9. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multiple Choice)

10.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

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

14. 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

15. What is the minimum number of points a team recieves for finishing an autocross run?

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

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

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

19. 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.

20. As an EV Team without DV, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

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

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

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

4. Your team is considering two languages, Verilog and VHDL, for programming an FPGA. Which languages could be used?

5. 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

6. For this Wheatstone Bridge based NTC temperature measurement circuit, which is the lowest voltage measurement (VAB) that is possible to obtain at 60ºC? (NTC B: 3435 +/-1%) Give answer in Volts rounded to two decimal points.

7. 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

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

9. 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

10. 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

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. Before the endurance you pump nitorgen in your tires at a temperature of 20°C and 0.7 bar relative pressure. Knowing, that during the endurance the maximal tyre temperature will be around 60°C, what will be the maximal relative pressure of the tyre? Give answer in bar to two decimal places.

3. In a gas pipe, the gas pressure pG is measured using a U-tube manometer connected at the bottom. Above the meniscus of the measuring liquid (mercury with density ρQ) on the gas side, there is a column of water with height h₂ and density ρW.
Question:
What negative pressure △pU (vacuum) exists in the pipe compared to the external pressure p₀?

Result in Pa, two decimal numbers seperated by a point (exp. 15.3). Do not put the Unit in the field below.

4. Using an indicator, the cylinder pressure can be plotted as a curve over the piston stroke. The curve recorded for the compression stroke of an internal combustion engine can be approximated by the relationship p⋅V^n=const..
What is the amount of work done by the volume change if the following values are given?

given: V_1=10^-3 m^3; p_1=0.1 MPa; p_2=3 MPa; n=1.3

Round to one decimal number seperated by a point. Input in Joul without writing the unit in the field below (example: 152.9).

5. The previous season you could recuperate only 25% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 63% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 9.6 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 to one decimal place.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. A refrigeration unit cools water of mass 3 kg by 33 °C. Find the thermal energy removed from the water. The specific heat capacity of water is 4186 J/kg celsius. Give answer to three significant figures in kJ.

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10. 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).

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