Quiz Preparation

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

2. How many percentage of points are the Finances in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

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

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

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

6. What is the maximum amount of points a EV team can recieve at an event?

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

8. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

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

10.

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

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

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

3. Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.9 secs but goes off course once and knocks over two cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 73.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

4. How many sets of dry tyres are allowed to be used in the manual dynamic disciplines during one event?

5.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

6. Your team recieves 23.9 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 82.3 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

7. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 6.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

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

9.

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. (FS 2025 Rules)

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

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

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

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

14. Teams who remove their vehicle from the event site after
the event has begun will be disqualified from the event.

15.

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

16. 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?

17.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

19. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

20. Your team reiceves 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.

1. 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

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

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. 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.

5. 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

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

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. 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

9. Which of these HV- and LV-components have to be fire-retardant? (Multiple Choice)

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

1. In a gas pipe, the gas pressure pG is measured using a U-tube manometer connected at the bottom. Above the meniscus of the measuring liquid (mercury with density ρQ) on the gas side, there is a column of water with height h₂ and density ρW.
Question:
What negative pressure △pU (vacuum) exists in the pipe compared to the external pressure p₀?

Result in Pa, two decimal numbers seperated by a point (exp. 15.3). Do not put the Unit in the field below.

2.

3. A hall with a floor area of 500 m² is to be equipped with underfloor heating, which will be operated at an average temperature of 33°C.

What percentage of the floor area must be used as heating surface in order to ensure an indoor temperature of 18°C when the outside temperature is -15°C?

Result in m^2 as an integer

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. 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.

6. 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%

7. 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

8. Calculate the maximum possible cornering speed (in kph) for the following FSAE car when going through a 20 m radius corner.

m = 260kg; cl *A * Rho = -6 kg/m; Tyre coefficient of friction = 1.5; g = 9.81 m/s^2.

The vehicle can be treated as a point mass, driving resistances neglected. Round to 1 decimal

9. 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

10. 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.