Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

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

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

7. Which of the following documents is directly evaluated during Engineering Design Event?

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

9. 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)

10. Ten pages of text are allowed in the Engineering Design Report

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

2.

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

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

4. 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 (?, ?).

5. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 65 points. Your team received 61 points but your team missed their timeslot for BPP. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place

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

7. 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.

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

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

10.

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

11. How many percentage of points is the Demonstration and Structure in the Business Plan Presentation Event?

12.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

13. 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.

14. How many sets of dry tyres are allowed to be used during one event?

15. 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.

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

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

18. What does a black flag mean?

19. What is the area of the cockpit opening template (including the area allowed for the steering) in square inches rounded to one decimal place?

20. Your team recieves 4.7 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.

1. Coco, the three-legged cat with a mass of 3.5 kg, is standing still on a horizontal frictionless surface. While playing with a ball of yarn, having a mass of 0.05 kg, Coco kicks it backwards with one of her three legs so hard that the ball of yarn reaches a speed of 2.3 m/s.
The resulting speed of Coco is:

2. Fred, the racing alpaca, has made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight to improve his time in Acceleration. Assume that the traction force remains the same, is constant over the entire Acceleration, and that drag or other resistances can be neglected.
How much weight must he lose at least to improve his time by 13 %? Answer in % and round to the nearest one.

3. Consider a digital LVTTL signal from your pedalbox to your main control unit. The length / of the cable inbetween is 5m. Your motor controllers introduce a noise of 0.15 V per meter cable. To correct for that noise, you introduce 74LVC1G34, non-inverting buffers into the cable.
The purpose of the buffer is to take a signal, to which a certain amount of noise has been added so that it would no longer meet the input specification of the static discipline, and clean it up so that it once again meets the output specification of the static discipline.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffers, as well as the gates shown, obey the following static discipline:

What is the minimum number of non-inverting LVTTL buffers required to connect inbetween in oder to ensure correct operation?

4. The truss structure shown in the figure is loaded with the forces F1, F2 and F3. The truss structure is supported in points A and B, as shown. Each segment of the truss structure is assumed to have no mass and infinite stiffness.
Identify the zero-force members in the structure under the given load and indicate them by placing a check mark.
You may select one or more answers.

5. Given is the three-dimensional circuit as shown. It consists of three resistors, each 4.7 kOhm, six capacitors, each 470 nF, and three inductors, each 4.7 μH.
Calculate the magnitude of the impedance |z| in kOhm between the input and output marked in red for a sinusoidal voltage of 12V and 50 Hz between the input and output. Round to two decimals.

6. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

7. A single-cylinder four-stroke engine with a total displacement of 623.7 cm3 has the following theoretical design: piston stroke s = 52 mm, connecting rod length l = 66 mm, piston diameter d = 38 mm. The ignition timing point is given as Sk = 2.0 mm before TDC.
Calculate the ignition timing point in ° crankshaft before TDC. Round to one decimal.

8. The TS of an EV can be simplified to be
an ideal TS energy storage and
an unshielded TS cable running through free air.

The ideal TS energy storage consists of the following parts:
an ideal voltage source V0 supplying 600 V DC at any load
an ideal resistor Ri of 28.5 mΩ which combines all resistances in the high current path of the TS energy storage, such as the cell, contact, busbar, wiring, fuse, and outlet connector resistances
an ideal circuit-breaker as the main fuse having an appropriate DC voltage rating and a characteristic such that the instantaneous tripping current is 10 times the rated current

The TS cable has the following properties:
the cross-section A is 2×6 mm2
the length l is 10 m
the specific conductivity κ is 56 m/(Ω*mm2)
a 30 % increase in the wire’s resistance covers the thermal behavior and all other effects during a short-circuit event
Select the rated current In and breaking capability Icn of the TS energy storage circuit-breaker, such that
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire triggers instantaneous tripping
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire can be interrupted
the maximum possible rated current is chosen, although the value might be well above the typical continuous current rating of the cable
available values for the rated current In have a step of 10 A (e.g. 10 A, 20 A, 30 A)
the minimum possible breaking capability is chosen
available values of the breaking capability Icn have a step of 10 kA (e.g. 40 kA, 50 kA, 60 kA)
Give the rated current In in A and the breaking capability Icn in kA in the following format: In, Icn e.g. 123, 456

9.

The figure shows a block diagram of a dynamic system.
What is the overall transfer function of the system?
Mark the correct answer.

10. In which cases will team members be denied their on-site member pass?
Mark all correct answers!

1. According to the FS Rules and the competition handbook: Which statements are true?

2. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

3. In the following there are multiple statements abount the rules. Which statements are correct?

4. In which cases will team members be denied their on-site member pass?
Mark all correct answers!

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

2. 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)

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

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

7. Which of the following statements regarding the Brake System is false?

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

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

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. 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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

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. 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.

7. 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

8. A ball at a height of 20ft on Earth with a gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg, gained 284 J of gravitational potential energy. Calculate the mass of the ball. Give answer to two decimal place in kg.

9. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 0.255 W. The lorry drives for 51 s. Calculate the energy transferred in Joules and round to one decimal places.

10. You would like to drink a cup of very hot coffee with milk early in the morning, but you
are in a hurry and have only 5 minutes until you have to leave for work. At which time
after brewing should you add the cold milk to the coffee and stir in order to decrease the
temperature of the mixture as much as possible:
a) 0 minutes (immediately),
b) 2 minutes, or
c) 4 minutes?
Suppose that the stirring can be done instantaneously and that you need the last one
minute for drinking.

brew temperature C = 80 ◦C, temperature of milk = M = 10 ◦C, room temperature
0 = 20 ◦C, volume of coffee VC = 300 ml, volume of milk VM = 100 ml, specific heat
capacity of coffee cC = 4180 J/(kgK), specific heat capacity of milk cM = 3500 J/(kgK).

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