Quiz Preparation

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

How many manual dynamic events can one team compete in during a competition?

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

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

What is BSPD short for?

A team can register up to how many Electrical System Officers?

What is the maximum hight for aerodynamic devices rearward of a vertical plane through the rearmost portion of
the front face of the driver head restraint support ?

Which of the following certifications for helmets is not allowed?

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

What does the yellow flag mean during the driving disciplines?

Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

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

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

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

How many sets of dry tyres are allowed to be used in the manual dynamic disciplines during one event?

Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 6.0 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 3.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

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?

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

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

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

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.

To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 450 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1200 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 20.000 EUR per year for the machine operator. The material costs are 50 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

Teams who remove their vehicle from the event site after
the event has begun will be disqualified from the event.

What is the diameter of the outside skidpad circle?

How far is the car tipped during the tilt test?

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 (?, ?).

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

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

Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.1 secs but goes off course. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.6 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

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.

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

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

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

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

Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

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

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)

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

Your BSPD has been triggered although the driver did not touch the driving pedal. What could have gone wrong? (multiple choice)

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

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

A 30 lbs model helicopter flying at 51 mph, calculate its kinetic energy. Answer in J to 3 significant figures.

A team is in the process of validating the compliance of the shoulder harness bar used in their car. Choose the part in which their configuration is incompliant:

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.

Calculate the pull force on the plate in Newton. Round to 2 numbers seperated by a point (exanple: 9.13)

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.

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

A spring in a car’s suspension has elastic potential energy store 226 J. If the spring constant is 8.1N/mm, find the extension. Give answer in meters to three significant figures.

The given gearbox consists of two gear sets with wheels 1, 2 and 3, 4 respectively. The wheels are fixed to their shafts. Calculate the drive speed (in rpm) of wheel 4?

Given: n1=600 rpm, z1=18, z2=90, z3=24, z4=120