Quiz Preparation

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

2. How many drivers are allowed to drive in each discipline?

3.

The following parts are part of the Shutdown Circuit (Multiple choice)

4. What is the resulting time of a SkidPad run?

5. What is the maximum length of time allowed for the driver change in endurance, in order to recieve no penatly?

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

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

8. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

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

10. How many numbers of skidpad runs does a team have?

1. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 69 points. Your team received 33 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

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

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

4.

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

5. 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 (?, ?).

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

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

8. Which of the following statements are wrong? (Multipel Choice)

9. Can a team be eliminated from the Engineering Design Event by the judges, if every document of theirs was accepted and they are present at the Engineering Design Event?

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

11.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

12.

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.

13. 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

14. What is the minimum diameter of a shutdown button placed on the side of the vehicle behind the driver’s compartment?

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

16. What is the minium number of points your team can get when participating in th BPP finals?

17. 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.

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

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

20. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

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

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

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

2. Calculate delta_h1 and delta_h2 in mm (integers), seprate the value with a comma, no space in between, delta_h1 is the first value (exp.: 126,4)

3. 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

4. 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

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6. 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

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8. A spring in a church clock has a spring constant of 10 N/m. What is its elastic potential energy store if it is stretched 8 m? Give answer in Joules to three significant figures.

9. Using an indicator, the cylinder pressure can be plotted as a curve over the piston stroke. The curve recorded for the compression stroke of an internal combustion engine can be approximated by the relationship p⋅V^n=const..
What is the amount of work done by the volume change if the following values are given?

given: V_1=10^-3 m^3; p_1=0.1 MPa; p_2=3 MPa; n=1.3

Round to one decimal number seperated by a point. Input in Joul without writing the unit in the field below (example: 152.9).

10. Your team is the first car at the design event during FSN2022 and it’s quite cold for this time of the year, 12 degrees C. To impress the judges, you decide to make some tea for them. What is the minimum required time to prepare the tea, knowing that you have to boil 4 tea cups of 370ml each and you have an electrical heater with a power of 500W. Give your answer to the nearest whole number in secs.