Quiz Preparation

1.

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

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

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

4. 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?

5. What is allowed regarding telemetry during a run?

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

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

8. During the BPP, who is allowed to answer questions from the judges?

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

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

1. What is the length of the acceleration track?

2. 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.

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

4. Your team completes their best autocross run in 71.9 secs but goes off course once and knocks over two cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 73.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

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

7. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

8. What does a black flag mean?

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

10. What is the maximum amount of points a EV team can recieve at an event?

11. 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.

12. The length of the acceleration track is 75m. Hypothetically the acceleration of the cars is constant, and linear, without slip. The vehicle starts from the starting line of the Acceleration track and then covers 75m. At the finish line, the speed of the racing car is 108 km/h.

How much time (in secs) is needed for the car complete the Acceleration Event and what was the acceleration of the car ( in m/s^2)? Give the answers as whole numbers sparated by a comma (?, ?).

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

14.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

15. What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

16. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

17.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data. (FS 2025 Rules)

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

19. What is the maximum duration of the Business Plan Presentation?

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

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

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

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

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. 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)

6. 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

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. 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

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

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

1. 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.

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

3. 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

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

5. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 9.6 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 1.9 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.

6. For a horizontally positioned, non-insulated steam pipe with a length of l=3 m and a diameter of d_a=0.1 the convective heat loss Q_point is to be calculated. The temperature of the surrounding air is θ_f=30∘C and that of the outer wall surface is θ_w=170∘C.

Input the result in kW and round to two decimal numbers seperated by a point without thr unit (example: 145.35)

7. In a gas pipe, the gas pressure pG is measured using a U-tube manometer connected at the bottom. Above the meniscus of the measuring liquid (mercury with density ρQ) on the gas side, there is a column of water with height h₂ and density ρW.
Question:
What negative pressure △pU (vacuum) exists in the pipe compared to the external pressure p₀?

Result in Pa, two decimal numbers seperated by a point (exp. 15.3). Do not put the Unit in the field below.

8. in m, to decimal numbers seperated by a point (example: 150.00), no unit requirment for the solution

9. 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.

10. 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