Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

4. 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

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

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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)

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

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

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

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

11. 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.

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

13. 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)

14. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

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 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

16. 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?

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

18.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

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

20. 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

1. The following processes have to be measured by the AMS. (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. Which of the following statements about LV battery packs with lithium based chemistry other than LiFePo4 is not true?

4. 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

5. 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

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

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

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

9. 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.

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

1. The kinetic energy of a 8 lbs 4 oz box as it was dropped reaching ground is 10125J. Determine the speed as it lands. Give answer to one decimal place in m/s.

2. 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%

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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

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

8. Frage

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

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