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 the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. 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)

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

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

3. 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.

4. 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)

5. Your team set the fastest lap time at the Autocross event with a time of 86,3 seconds on your first and only run. However, on the final scoring sheet your team is listed in fifth place with 73,1 out of 100 points, while the new winner of the event has a corrected elapsed time of 87,1 seconds. ​
How many cones did your team knock Down or Out?

6. 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

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

8. Which of these is/are not a penalty during autocross? (Multiple choice)

9. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

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

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

12. 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

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

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

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

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

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

18. Your team recieves 4.7 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 69.1 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

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

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

1.

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

2. 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.

3. 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?

4.

The figure shows a simplified quarter vehicle modal. The drive torque T(M) is the input, the wheel speed W is the output of the system. The torque due to the acceleration of the vehicle is modelled by the constant disturbance d. I models the inertia of the wheel and s is the complex variable of the Laplace transform.

Which statements are correct? Mark all correct answers.

5. 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.

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

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

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

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

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

3. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

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

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

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

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

1. A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

2. 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.

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. 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 = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

5. 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.

6. 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:

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. The kinetic energy of a 8 lbs 4 oz box as it was dropped reaching ground is 10125J. Determine the speed as it lands. Give answer to one decimal place in m/s.