Quiz Preparation

1. The car is tipped to 60° during the tilt test?

2. What penalty is given for a doo in Skidpad?

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

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

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

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

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

8.

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

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

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

1. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

2. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 3.3 secs, but at the end of the run knocks over one cone. 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.

3. What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

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

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

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

7.

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

8. Which statement about the Ready-To-Drive sound is correct?

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

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. Your team completes their best autocross run in 84.9 secs and that was the fastest overall time. How many points did your team recieve for autocross? Round to one decimal place.

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

13. 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?

14. 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.

15. Which of the following requirements are a must for all non DV electric cars with wings, when moving the vehicle on the competition site? (Multiple choice)

16. 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

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

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

20. Your team recieves 23.9 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 82.3 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

1. 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

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

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

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

5. 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

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

7. 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.

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

9. 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)

10. 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

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

2. 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

3. If the density of aluminium is 2.71 kg/m^3, find the volume of a 0.888 kg of aluminium. Give answer in m^3 with two decimal places.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. Calculate the cornering speed during Skidpad (you can use the centerline radius in the rules) using following information:

μ_y = 1.4,  m = 240 kg,  c_L = 3.2,  A = 1 m^2,  ρ = 1.1  kg/m^3

It is assumed, that there is no weight transfer and all 4 tires are at the optimal grip level. Answer in m/s rounded to one decimal place.

8. 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.

9. 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

10. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN