Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

4. Which of the following documents is directly evaluated during Engineering Design Event?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

3. An EV team without driverless components have 9 parts of scrutineering to pass before being allowed to compete on track.

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

5.

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.

6. 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?

7. 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.

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

9. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 69 points. Your team received 33 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

10. Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.2 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 71 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

11. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 3.3 secs, but at the end of the run knocks over one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

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

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

14. What is the minimum score for the third place in the Business Plan finals (with three finalists)?

15. 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

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

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

18. 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.

19.

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.

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

1. 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.

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.

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

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

5.

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.

6. Coco, the three-legged cat with a mass of 3.5 kg, is standing still on a horizontal frictionless surface. While playing with a ball of yarn, having a mass of 0.05 kg, Coco kicks it backwards with one of her three legs so hard that the ball of yarn reaches a speed of 2.3 m/s.
The resulting speed of Coco is:

7. 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.

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

9. 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.

10. 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.
Identify the zero-force members in the structure under the given load and indicate them by placing a check mark.
You may select one or more answers.

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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.

5. 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)

6. 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

7. 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

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

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

1. 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.

2. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 0.255 W. The lorry drives for 51 s. Calculate the energy transferred in Joules and round to one decimal places.

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. An air as an ideal gas expands adiabatic from a volume of V1 = 1,00l with its pressure of p1 = 10^5 Pa to 1/10 of its original pressure. What volume V2 (in litres) does the gas reach after it’s expansion? Round 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 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.

6. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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

8. 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.

9. 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.

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