Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

4. What is the minimum score for the third place in the Business Plan finals (with three finalists)?

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

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

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

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

9.

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.

10. What is the length of the acceleration track?

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

2. 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

3. As a DV-EV Team not competing in DC, what is your maximum total score of Busniess Plan Presentation, Cost and Manufacturing, Skid Pad, Acceleration and Efficiency together?

4. Can a team be eliminated from the Engineering Design Event by the judges, if every document of theirs was accepted and they are present at the Engineering Design Event?

5. 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.

6. 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.

7. 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

8. 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.

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

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

11. In which currency must the costs be displayed in the CBOM?

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

13.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

15. 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 59 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

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

17.

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

18. Your team recieves 59.3 points for their autocross run. The fastest time overall was 71.9 secs. How long was your team’s fastest run? Round to one decimal place.

19. What is not a ’system‘ in the Cost Reports Bill of Material?

20. To build your race car you need a part what can be bought on the public market for 250 EUR per piece. Your plan is to sell 1000 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

1. 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.

2. Which of the following statements regarding the rules are correct (2024)?
Mark all correct answers.

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

4. 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.

5.

The figure shows internal single walls of the TSAC and their cutouts.
Which of these walls are rules compliant? Mark all correct answers.

6. 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:

7. A horizontal pipe increases from cross-section 1 with A1 = 2.55 cm2 to cross-section 2 with A2 = 7.1 cm2. In cross-section 1 there is a pressure of p1 = 1.2 bar and a flow rate of v1 = 5 m/s. The density of water is 997 kg/m3.
Calculate the pressure in bar in cross-section 2 for the flowing water. Round to two decimals.

8. You built a cannon to impress your friends with a basketball trickshot. It has a railgun-style accelerator with a length / of 1 m. Your cannon is tilted upwards by an angle a of 77.25° and is placed as depicted with the lower part in the origin of the coordinate system. The cannonball has a mass m of 0.567 kg. Assume that the capacitors have a total capacity C of 33 mF, that the standard acceleration due to gravity 9, is 980.665 cm/s^2 and that there is no friction and no energy loss.
What voltage do you need to charge the capacitors supplying the railgun to, in order to hit the basket at (4.191 m, 3.05 m). Round to the nearest one.

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

10. Fred, the racing alpaca, challenges Coco, the 3-leged cat, to an acceleration event according to D 5.1.1. Being very confident, Fred gives Coco a head start h of 14 m infront of the start line. Both start the same time t=0 s having an initial speed V0 of 0m/s as shown in the figure. Coco accelerates with 6m/s^2. Assume that both are not limited by speed and have a constant acceleraton over the full acceleration event.

Calculate the minimum acceleration Fred needs to achieve to reach the finish line at the same time as Coco. Round to one decimal.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. During last year acceleration a top speed of 100 km/h was reached. Due to big improvements in the new drivetrain, the new vehicle reaches a top speed of 120 km/h. The aerodynamics chief has some worries about the stability of the rear wing bracing due to the higher aerodynamics load. Given the geometry below, by how much % does the bearing force in point A change in comparison to last year? (The aerodynamic package did not change and therefore some values can be assumed for both vehicles). Give answer rounded to one decimal place.

CL=3.8     CD=1.2     A=1 m²     rho=1.1 kg/m³     L1=50 mm     L2= 100 mm     H1= 125 mm     H2= 165mm

2. 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.

3. A vehicle with the mass 190kg, wheelbase 1,56m and tyre static radius 222mm is weighed. Scales measure 83kg (front) and 107kg (rear) when the car measured on the perfectly flat ground and the same values when the front axle is elevated by 0,85m. What is the car’s COG height? Give answer to the nearest whole number in mm

4. 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.

5. Calculate the Normal force on the rear left tyre during the first skidpad lap. You can assume, that your vehicle is in a steady-state condition and that there is no longitudinal acceleration. Further it can be assumed, that all 4 wheels have a lateral grip coefficient of 1.4. You can use the centerline radius stated in the rules. Following information regarding the vehicle are given. Give answer to nearest whole number in Newtons.

m = 220 kg

Cl = 3.8

A = 1 m^2

Rho = 1.1 kg/m^3

Wheelbase: L = 1.53

Trackwidth:t = 1.2 m

Height of CG: h = 0.2 m

Weight distribution/COP: 50%

6. A cat of mass 12 kgs ran at 65mph. What is its kinetic energy? Answer in J to the nearest whole number

7. 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.

8. 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.

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

10. 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: