Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

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.

Which of the following parts are not part of the Shutdown Circuit? (Multiple choice)

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

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

9. How many cones do you need to build the skidpad track

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

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

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

3. 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.

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

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

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

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

8. 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. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

9. 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.

10. 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.

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

12. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.1 secs but goes off course. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.6 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

13. 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.

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

15. What is not a ’system‘ in the Cost Reports Bill of Material?

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

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

18. What is the minimum allowed ground clearance, excluding driver?

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

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

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 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

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

8. 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.

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

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

1. During last year acceleration a top speed of 100 km/h was reached. Due to big improvements in the new drivetrain, the new vehicle reaches a top speed of 120 km/h. The aerodynamics chief has some worries about the stability of the rear wing bracing due to the higher aerodynamics load. Given the geometry below, by how much % does the bearing force in point A change in comparison to last year? (The aerodynamic package did not change and therefore some values can be assumed for both vehicles). Give answer rounded to one decimal place.

CL=3.8     CD=1.2     A=1 m²     rho=1.1 kg/m³     L1=50 mm     L2= 100 mm     H1= 125 mm     H2= 165mm

2. 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

3. A spring in a car’s suspension has elastic potential energy store 226 J. If the spring constant is 8.1N/mm, find the extension. Give answer in meters to three significant figures.

4. 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.

5. 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.

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

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

8. A refrigeration unit cools water of mass 3 kg by 33 °C. Find the thermal energy removed from the water. The specific heat capacity of water is 4186 J/kg celsius. Give answer to three significant figures in kJ.

9. 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

10. The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120