Quiz Preparation

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

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

3. What is DNF short for?

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

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

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

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

8.

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

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

10. How many drivers are allowed to drive in each discipline?

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

2. What is the maximum number of drivers allowed to compete at an event?

3.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

5. What is the maximum hight for aerodynamic devices rearward of a vertical plane through the rearmost portion of
the front face of the driver head restraint support ?

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

7. 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

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

9. What is the diameter of the inside skidpad circle?

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

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

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

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

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

15. For the rain test: (Multiple Choice)

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

17. What does a black flag mean?

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 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

19. 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

20. 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

1. 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

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

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. 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

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

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

7. How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

8. 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.

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

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

1. 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%

2. Calculate delta_h1 and delta_h2 in mm (integers), seprate the value with a comma, no space in between, delta_h1 is the first value (exp.: 126,4)

3. Calculate the force Fc working at point C. Give answer in kN rounded to one decimal place.

Forces at point A: Rax = 3kN, Ray = 9kN, Ma = 10kN/m

4. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.

5. Unit: kg/(m^3), to decimal number seperated by: . (exp. 15.3), write only the number in the field below

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

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

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. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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