Quiz Preparation

1. For the Cost and Manufacturing discipline, which statement is correct regarding „bought parts“?

2.

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

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

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

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

6. 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?

7.

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.

8. What is the resulting time of a SkidPad run?

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

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

1. 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.

2. 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

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

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

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

6. How many percentage of points is the Cost Understanding in the Overall Cost and Manufacturing Event?

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

8. Suppose that 28 teams particpate in the CV category and your team is one of them, there are 6 Busniess Finalist teams among them. The team with the highest points not reaching the finals has 67 points, your team recieved 59 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Give answer to one decimal place

9.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

11.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

12. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.0 secs but knocks down one cone. The fastest team overall completed their run in 75.7 secs but knocked down three cones. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

13. 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

14. 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?

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

16. Your Team Sponsor offers you a Driver’s Harness. After examining the harness and the rules, an engineer in your team reports that the attachment of the harness can not be welded to the chassis structure. Furthermore, the engineer makes 4 statements. Which of these statements is true?

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

18. 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.

19. For the rain test: (Multiple Choice)

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

1. 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

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 is false regarding the difference between Lead-based batteries, Nickel-based batteries and Lithium-based batteries?

4. 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.

5. 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

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

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

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

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

1. 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)

2. Calculate the Normal force on the rear left tyre during the first skidpad lap. You can assume, that your vehicle is in a steady-state condition and that there is no longitudinal acceleration. Further it can be assumed, that all 4 wheels have a lateral grip coefficient of 1.4. You can use the centerline radius stated in the rules. Following information regarding the vehicle are given. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons.

m = 220 kg

Cl = 3.8

A = 1 m^2

Rho = 1.1 kg/m^3

Wheelbase: L = 1.53

Trackwidth:t = 1.2 m

Height of CG: h = 0.2 m

Weight distribution/COP: 50%

3. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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

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6. 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.

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8. 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.

9. in cm^3, round to decimal numbers sperated by point (13.5) no unit int the answer

10. 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