Quiz Preparation

1. 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?

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

3.

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.

4. What does a black flag mean?

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

6.

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

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

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

9.

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

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

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

2. 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 ?

3. 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)

4.

How many teams can be registered per university? (Multiple Choice)

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

6. What is the volume of the smallest allowed head restraint? Give answer to two decimal places in m^3

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

8. 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.

9. How many manual dynamic events can one team compete in during a competition?

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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.

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

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

16. 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.

17. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multiple Choice)

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

19.

The following items have to be on or attached to the push bar, if you are an EV team. (multiple choice)

20.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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

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

1. Using an indicator, the cylinder pressure can be plotted as a curve over the piston stroke. The curve recorded for the compression stroke of an internal combustion engine can be approximated by the relationship p⋅V^n=const..
What is the amount of work done by the volume change if the following values are given?

given: V_1=10^-3 m^3; p_1=0.1 MPa; p_2=3 MPa; n=1.3

Round to one decimal number seperated by a point. Input in Joul without writing the unit in the field below (example: 152.9).

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. The magnitude of the manifold reaction force FK is to be determined. In Newton, integer, no unit in the answer

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.

6. 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.

7. Your team is the first car at the design event during FSN2022 and it’s quite cold for this time of the year, 12 degrees C. To impress the judges, you decide to make some tea for them. What is the minimum required time to prepare the tea, knowing that you have to boil 4 tea cups of 370ml each and you have an electrical heater with a power of 500W. Give your answer to the nearest whole number in secs.

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

10. 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: