Quiz Preparation

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

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

3. What is the length of the acceleration track?

4. What is AMS short for?

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

6. 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 ?

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

8. Are teams allowed to decide whether they drive on rain tires or slicks by themselves?

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

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

1. 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?

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

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

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

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

6.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

7. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 49 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

8. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.0 secs but knocks down 11 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

9. 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

10. 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.

11. 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

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

13. Each team must have two 0.8kg fire extinguishers.

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

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

16. 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 ?

17. 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.

18. 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.

19.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

1. An air as an ideal gas expands adiabatic from a volume of V1 = 1,00l with its pressure of p1 = 10^5 Pa to 1/10 of its original pressure. What volume V2 (in litres) does the gas reach after it’s expansion? Round to two decimal places

2. 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 = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

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

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

5. 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.

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

8. Before the endurance you pump nitorgen in your tires at a temperature of 20°C and 0.7 bar relative pressure. Knowing, that during the endurance the maximal tyre temperature will be around 60°C, what will be the maximal relative pressure of the tyre? Give answer in bar to two decimal places.

9. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

10. 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.