Quiz Preparation

1. What is the penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

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

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

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

5. Which of the following requirements are a must for all non DV electric cars with wings, when moving the vehicle on the competition site? (Multiple choice)

6. How many sets of dry tyres are allowed to be used during one event?

7.

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

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

9. What is the minimum height of the characters of the car number?

10. What is the penatly for hitting over a cone during skidpad?

1. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

2. Which of the following requirements are a must for all non DV electric cars with wings, when moving the vehicle on the competition site? (Multiple choice)

3.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

4.

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

5.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

6. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 67 points. Your team received 29 points but the topic of your team’s BPP didn’t meet the requirements defined in the rules. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

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

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

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

10. 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.

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

12.

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

13. In which currency must the costs be displayed in the CBOM?

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

15. 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

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

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

18. Which of the following statements are wrong? (Multipel Choice)

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

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

1. You built a cannon to impress your friends with a basketball trickshot. It has a railgun-style accelerator with a length / of 1 m. Your cannon is tilted upwards by an angle a of 77.25° and is placed as depicted with the lower part in the origin of the coordinate system. The cannonball has a mass m of 0.567 kg. Assume that the capacitors have a total capacity C of 33 mF, that the standard acceleration due to gravity 9, is 980.665 cm/s^2 and that there is no friction and no energy loss.
What voltage do you need to charge the capacitors supplying the railgun to, in order to hit the basket at (4.191 m, 3.05 m). Round to the nearest one.

2. For the shown drive train, the input rotational speed is 3600 min-1, and the number of teeth of the sprocket is z1 = 20.
ease note: n2 = n3, n4 = n5, n6 = n7.
The number of teeth of the sprockets are:
z1 = 20, z2 = 45, z3 = 24, z4 = 55, z5 = 30, z6 = 43, z7 = 15, z8 = 53
Calculate the rotational speed in min^-1 for the final sprocket z8 where the driveshafts are mounted. Round to one decimal.

3.

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.

4. Fred, the racing alpaca, challenges Coco, the 3-leged cat, to an acceleration event according to D 5.1.1. Being very confident, Fred gives Coco a head start h of 14 m infront of the start line. Both start the same time t=0 s having an initial speed V0 of 0m/s as shown in the figure. Coco accelerates with 6m/s^2. Assume that both are not limited by speed and have a constant acceleraton over the full acceleration event.

Calculate the minimum acceleration Fred needs to achieve to reach the finish line at the same time as Coco. Round to one decimal.

5. 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?

6. 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.

7. Given is the three-dimensional circuit as shown. It consists of three resistors, each 4.7 kOhm, six capacitors, each 470 nF, and three inductors, each 4.7 μH.
Calculate the magnitude of the impedance |z| in kOhm between the input and output marked in red for a sinusoidal voltage of 12V and 50 Hz between the input and output. Round to two decimals.

8. 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

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.

The figure shows the output voltage Vout versus the input voltage Vin as the transfer function of 74LVC1G34, a non-inverting LVTTL buffer.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffer obeys the following static discipline:

Does the given tranfer curve satisfy the static discipline? Mark all correct answers.

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

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

3. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

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

1. Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

2. 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

3. 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.

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

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

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

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. A 30 lbs model helicopter flying at 51 mph, calculate its kinetic energy. Answer in J to 3 significant figures.

2. A spring in a church clock has a spring constant of 10 N/m. What is its elastic potential energy store if it is stretched 8 m? Give answer in Joules to three significant figures.

3. A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

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 = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

5. A team is in the process of validating the compliance of the shoulder harness bar used in their car. Choose the part in which their configuration is incompliant:

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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. 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)