Quiz Preparation

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

2. What is BSPD short for?

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

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

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

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

7. Situation during the Endurance: A driver spins with the car and is driving in reverse to get back on track. What is wrong in this situation?

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

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

10. 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?

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

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

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

4. 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.

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

6.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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. 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.

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

10. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.3 secs but knocks down 5 cones. 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.

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

12. What is the length of the acceleration track?

13. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 24 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

14. Your team recieves 14.7 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

7. Which of the following requirements of the brake light assembly must be met to be rules compliant? (multiple choice)

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. 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

10. 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

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4. in m, to decimal numbers seperated by a point (example: 150.00), no unit requirment for the solution

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 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)

7. Answer in MJ, round to one decimal number (example 45.7), no unit in the answer

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. 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. 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