Quiz Preparation

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

2. What does a black flag mean?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10. What is the minimum allowed static ground clearance, including driver?

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

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

4. 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.

5. What is the maximum number of drivers allowed to compete at an event?

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. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.9 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 5.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

8. What is the minimum amount of ASR needed at the Event when being a DV Team?

9. 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.

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

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

12. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 24 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

13. 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 ?

14. In which currency must the costs be displayed in the CBOM?

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

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 penatly for driving off course during acceleration?

18. As an EV Team without DV, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

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

20. 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.

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

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. 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

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

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

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

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. 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.

2. 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

3. A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

4. A team is in the process of validating the compliance of the shoulder harness bar used in their car. Choose the part in which their configuration is incompliant:

5. 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.

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.

7. Answer in MJ, round to one decimal number (example 45.7), no unit in the answer

8. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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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