Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

5.

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

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

7. Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

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

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

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

1.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

3.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

5. 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

6.

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.

7. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 65 points. Your team received 61 points but your team missed their timeslot for BPP. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

8.

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

9.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

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

13. What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

14. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 450 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1200 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

15. 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?

16. What is the minimum allowed static ground clearance, including driver?

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

18. 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.

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

20. Ten pages of text are allowed in the Engineering Design Report

1. 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.

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

5. 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.

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

8. 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)

9. Given is a parallel-plate capacitor with area A, separated by a uniform gap of thickness d1 filled with a dielectric with permittivity ε. At time t1, the voltage of the capacitor is V1. The capacitor is not connected to any electrical network.
How much energy is needed to change the plate spacing to d2 = 4 × d1?

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. 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

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

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

4. 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)

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

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. A helicopter of mass 4200 kg is carrying a crate using a light extensible rope. The crate has a total mass of 800 kg, including its contents. The helicopter and crate are accelerating upwards at 2.0 ms^-2. What is the tension in the rope? Use gravititational field strength g is 9,81 N/kg. Air resistance can be ignored. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

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. A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number

8. 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%

9. 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.

10. 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.