Quiz Preparation

1. Which of the following must be included in the Bill of Material (BOM)?

2. What must the Technical Vehicle System Documentation include?

3. What needs to be considered when entering the Dynamic Area?

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

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

6. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

7. What is IMD short for ?

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

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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?

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

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

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

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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

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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.

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

13. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 6.1 secs. 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.

14. 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

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The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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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)

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The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

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

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

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

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

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

5. A thin circular, isolated wire made of copper with radius R lies on a table with its ends
connected to a Volt meter. Another, straight wire lies exactly along a diameter of the
circular wire, connected to an alternate current source i(t) = I0 sin(wt).
The experimental setup is shown in the following Figure:

Which effective voltage Ueff does the Volt meter display?
R = 10 cm, maximum current I0 = 1 A, f = 50 Hz.
Give your answer in Volts with three decimal places

6. 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.

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

8. 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

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

10. 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

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. 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.

3. 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 = 300 km/h, μF = 0.15, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. A helicopter of mass 4200 kg is carrying a crate using a light extensible rope. The crate has a total mass of 800 kg, including its contents. The helicopter and crate are accelerating upwards at 2.0 ms^-2. What is the tension in the rope? Use gravititational field strength g is 9,81 N/kg. Air resistance can be ignored. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons

7. 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.

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

9. A water tank under a pressure of p = 117.72 kPa has three pipes connected to it, which are sealed 5 meters below the water surface by three plates with areas A₁, A₂, and A₃.
Task:
Sort the pressures p₁, p₂, and p₃ according to their magnitude.

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