Quiz Preparation

1.

In the event of unsportsmanlike conduct, 25 penalty points will be deducted from the team’s overall score. A second violation will result in an additional 100 penalty points deducted from the team’s overall score.

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

3. 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)

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

5.

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

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

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

8. How many percentage of points is the Demonstration and Structure in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

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

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

1.

In the event of unsportsmanlike conduct, 25 penalty points will be deducted from the team’s overall score. A second violation will result in an additional 100 penalty points deducted from the team’s overall score.

2.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data.

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

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

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

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

7. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

8. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 75.7 secs but knocked down three cones. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

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

10. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

11. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.0 secs but knocks down 11 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

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

13. 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)

14. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 70 points. Your team received 51 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

15.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data.

16. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down five cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 1 min 13 secs but knocked down three cones. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

17. What is the minimum tread depth of the wet tires?

18. 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 59 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

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

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

1. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

2.

The figure shows internal single walls of the TSAC and their cutouts.
Which of these walls are rules compliant? Mark all correct answers.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. Which of the following statements regarding the rules are correct (2024)?
Mark all correct answers.

6. You want to use a photo from media.formulastudent.de.
Mark the correct answer.

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

2. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

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

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

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

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

3. 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)

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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

1. 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.

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

3. 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.

4. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

5. 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

6. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 0.255 W. The lorry drives for 51 s. Calculate the energy transferred in Joules and round to one decimal places.

7. 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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.