Quiz Preparation

1. What penalty is given for a doo in Skidpad?

2. What does a black flag mean?

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

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

5. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

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

7. What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

8. Which of the following is true about presenting the vehicle for static judging?

9. Which of the following statements about the dynamic disciplines is correct?

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

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

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

3. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

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

5. An official has the right to remove the scrutineering sticker from the car, if the car is no longer rule compliant.

6. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 450 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1200 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

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

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

9.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

10. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 67 points. Your team received 29 points but the topic of your team’s BPP didn’t meet the requirements defined in the rules. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

11.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 400 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1300 race cars the next five years. If you will manufacture the part by yourself, you need an investment of 400.000 EUR for the installation. Furthermore, you need to pay 25.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 75 EUR per piece. The machine cannot be sold after the usage. What is the cost of one piece of the own manufactured parts? Give answer as one whole number

19. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.2 secs. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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)

9. 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

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. 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)

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

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. The previous season you could recuperate only 25% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 63% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 9.6 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 to one decimal place.

10. Calculate the pull force on the plate in Newton. Round to 2 numbers seperated by a point (exanple: 9.13)