Quiz Preparation

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

What happens if a driver completes more than two runs in a discipline?

What is the penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

What is the length of the acceleration track?

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

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

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

What is IMD short for ?

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

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

Your Team Sponsor offers you a Driver’s Harness. After examining the harness and the rules, an engineer in your team reports that the attachment of the harness can not be welded to the chassis structure. Furthermore, the engineer makes 4 statements. Which of these statements is true?

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

What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

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.

For the rain test: (Multiple Choice)

What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

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.

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

How many points are assigned for the BOM discussion in the Cost and Manufacturing Event?

What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

What is the minimum height of the university name on both sides of the car?

What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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 (?, ?).

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

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

What is the volume of the smallest allowed head restraint? Give answer to two decimal places in m^3

As a DV-EV Team not competing in DC, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

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.

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

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

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.

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

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.

If the density of aluminium is 2.71 kg/m^3, find the volume of a 0.888 kg of aluminium. Give answer in m^3 with two decimal places.

Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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

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.

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%

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