Quiz Preparation

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

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

3. What happens if a driver completes more than two runs in a discipline?

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

5.

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

6. Which of the following statements about the dynamic disciplines is correct?

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

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

9. What is DNF short for?

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

1. 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.

2. 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

3. 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 ?

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

5.

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

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

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

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

9.

Assuming the skid pad event has only two participants, both EV without driverless. Team A and Team B: calculate the score rounded to two decimals for the team scoring the lower amount of points using the following data. (FS 2025 Rules)

10. 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.

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

12. What does a black flag mean?

13.

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.

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

15. What is the minimum amount of ASR needed at the Event when being a DV Team?

16. 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 (?, ?).

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

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

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

20.

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

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

2. 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

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

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

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

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. 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)

8. 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

9. Your BSPD has been triggered although the driver did not touch the driving pedal. What could have gone wrong? (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. Calculate the force Fc working at point C.

Rax = 4kN, Ray = 10 kN

Rbx =5 kN, Rby = 8 kN

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. The Wet Skid Pad World Record was set at FSN2019 by TU Delft. They managed to set a time of 4.901 for the left circle and a time of 5.031 for the right circle. Assume the run was completed perfectly along the center line of the circles. What was their average speed during this record run? Give answer to two decimal places in mph.

4. A hall with a floor area of 500 m² is to be equipped with underfloor heating, which will be operated at an average temperature of 33°C.

What percentage of the floor area must be used as heating surface in order to ensure an indoor temperature of 18°C when the outside temperature is -15°C?

Result in m^2 as an integer

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

6. Calculate the force Fc working at point C. Give answer in kN rounded to one decimal place.

Forces at point A: Rax = 3kN, Ray = 9kN, Ma = 10kN/m

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

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

9. 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

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