Quiz Preparation

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

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

3. What is DNF short for?

4. Which of the following must be included in the Bill of Material (BOM)?

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

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

7. What is true about the Cones & Markings for Autonomous Running?

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

9. Which system is the content of CCBOM in 2026?

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

1. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.2 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

2. 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

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

4. How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

5. 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.

6. 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.

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

8. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15. Which of the following statements are correct? (Multiple Choice)

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

17. You want to use this shutdown button left and right between the main hoop and the main hoop bracings. Is this application rules compliant?

18. 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 (?, ?).

19. What does the yellow flag mean during the driving disciplines?

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

1. 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)

2. 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.

3. 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

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

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

6. 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.

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

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

9. 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

10. 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

1. 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.

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

3. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

4. 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.

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

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

7. Calculate the gravitational potential energy of a 4 kg object at 15 m above Earth’s surface with gravitational field strength of 9.81 N/kg. Give answer to three significant figures in J.

8. 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).

9. 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.

10. A water tank under a pressure of p = 117.72 kPa has three pipes connected to it, which are sealed 5 meters below the water surface by three plates with areas A₁, A₂, and A₃.
Task:
Sort the pressures p₁, p₂, and p₃ according to their magnitude.