Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

4. Which of the following requirements is a must for all types of vehicles, when moving the vehicle on the competition site?

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the length of the acceleration track?

1. 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.

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. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 6.0 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

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

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

8. 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?

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

10.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

11. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 49 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

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

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

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

15.

How many teams can be registered per university? (Multiple Choice)

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

17. 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?

18. 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.

19. What is the total surface area of percy (including connection pieces)? Persume the connection pieces have a width of 20mm. Give answer in miles to one decimal place

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

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

2. Fred, the racing alpaca, has made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight to improve his time in Acceleration. Assume that the traction force remains the same, is constant over the entire Acceleration, and that drag or other resistances can be neglected.
How much weight must he lose at least to improve his time by 13 %? Answer in % and round to the nearest one.

3.

The figure shows a block diagram of a dynamic system.
What is the overall transfer function of the system?
Mark the correct answer.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. The TS of an EV can be simplified to be
an ideal TS energy storage and
an unshielded TS cable running through free air.

The ideal TS energy storage consists of the following parts:
an ideal voltage source V0 supplying 600 V DC at any load
an ideal resistor Ri of 28.5 mΩ which combines all resistances in the high current path of the TS energy storage, such as the cell, contact, busbar, wiring, fuse, and outlet connector resistances
an ideal circuit-breaker as the main fuse having an appropriate DC voltage rating and a characteristic such that the instantaneous tripping current is 10 times the rated current

The TS cable has the following properties:
the cross-section A is 2×6 mm2
the length l is 10 m
the specific conductivity κ is 56 m/(Ω*mm2)
a 30 % increase in the wire’s resistance covers the thermal behavior and all other effects during a short-circuit event
Select the rated current In and breaking capability Icn of the TS energy storage circuit-breaker, such that
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire triggers instantaneous tripping
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire can be interrupted
the maximum possible rated current is chosen, although the value might be well above the typical continuous current rating of the cable
available values for the rated current In have a step of 10 A (e.g. 10 A, 20 A, 30 A)
the minimum possible breaking capability is chosen
available values of the breaking capability Icn have a step of 10 kA (e.g. 40 kA, 50 kA, 60 kA)
Give the rated current In in A and the breaking capability Icn in kA in the following format: In, Icn e.g. 123, 456

7.

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.

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. The truss structure shown in the figure is loaded with the forces F1, F2 and F3. The truss structure is supported in points A and B, as shown. Each segment of the truss structure is assumed to have no mass and infinite stiffness.
a = 2 m, F1 = 6 kN, F2 = 13 kN, F3 = 13 kN
Calculate the force in A and B in y-direction in kN. Enter the higher value. Round to one decimal.
(answer can be positiv or negativ but only negativ answers will be accepted)

10. The sequence x[n]=(-1)^n is obtained by sampling the continuouse-time sinusoidal signal x(t)= cos(w0t) at 1-ms intervals, i.e.,

Determine the three smallest distinct possible values of w0 as a multiple of nx10^3 in the following format: w0 1, w0 2, w0 3, e.g 1, 2, 3

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

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

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

2. 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

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

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

5. 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.

6. 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

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

8. 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)

9. 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

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

1. Calculate the cornering speed during Skidpad (you can use the centerline radius in the rules) using following information:

μ_y = 1.4,  m = 240 kg,  c_L = 3.2,  A = 1 m^2,  ρ = 1.1  kg/m^3

It is assumed, that there is no weight transfer and all 4 tires are at the optimal grip level. Answer in m/s rounded to one decimal place.

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Calculate the gravitational potential energy of a 4 kg object at 15 m above Earth’s surface with gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg. Give answer to three significant figures in J.

8. 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:

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

10. The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120