Quiz Preparation

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

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

3. What is the penatly for driving off course during endurance?

4.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

1. Your Team Sponsor offers you a Driver’s Harness. After examining the harness and the rules, an engineer in your team reports that the attachment of the harness can not be welded to the chassis structure. Furthermore, the engineer makes 4 statements. Which of these statements is true?

2. 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.

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

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

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

6. Your team completes their best manual acceleration run in 4.2 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for acceleration? Round to one decimal place.

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

8. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 6.1 secs. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.9 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

9.

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

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

11. What is the diameter of the inside skidpad circle?

12. What is the volume of the smallest allowed head restraint? Give answer to two decimal places in m^3

13. The team at an event with the highest points in the Buisness Plan Presentation but not reaching the finals has 70 points. Your team received 51 points. What is your Business Plan Presentation Score? Round to one decimal place & don’t forget to use a point instead of comma

14. 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

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

16. 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.

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

18. 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?

19. 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 (?, ?).

20. A team missed the intial deadline for a document and submitted this 24 hours after the deadline. After that the team’s document got accepted. The team will recieve a 10 point penalty.

1. The sequence x[n]=(-1)^n is obtained by sampling the continuouse-time sinusoidal signal x(t)= cos(w0t) at 1-ms intervals, i.e.,

Determine the three smallest distinct possible values of w0 as a multiple of nx10^3 in the following format: w0 1, w0 2, w0 3, e.g 1, 2, 3

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

3. Consider a digital LVTTL signal from your pedalbox to your main control unit. The length / of the cable inbetween is 5m. Your motor controllers introduce a noise of 0.15 V per meter cable. To correct for that noise, you introduce 74LVC1G34, non-inverting buffers into the cable.
The purpose of the buffer is to take a signal, to which a certain amount of noise has been added so that it would no longer meet the input specification of the static discipline, and clean it up so that it once again meets the output specification of the static discipline.
The non-inverting LVTTL buffers, as well as the gates shown, obey the following static discipline:

What is the minimum number of non-inverting LVTTL buffers required to connect inbetween in oder to ensure correct operation?

4. 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:

5.

The figure shows a block diagram of a dynamic system.
What is the overall transfer function of the system?
Mark the correct answer.

6. Given is the three-dimensional circuit as shown. It consists of three resistors, each 4.7 kOhm, six capacitors, each 470 nF, and three inductors, each 4.7 μH.
Calculate the magnitude of the impedance |z| in kOhm between the input and output marked in red for a sinusoidal voltage of 12V and 50 Hz between the input and output. Round to two decimals.

7. The TS of an EV can be simplified to be
an ideal TS energy storage and
an unshielded TS cable running through free air.

The ideal TS energy storage consists of the following parts:
an ideal voltage source V0 supplying 600 V DC at any load
an ideal resistor Ri of 28.5 mΩ which combines all resistances in the high current path of the TS energy storage, such as the cell, contact, busbar, wiring, fuse, and outlet connector resistances
an ideal circuit-breaker as the main fuse having an appropriate DC voltage rating and a characteristic such that the instantaneous tripping current is 10 times the rated current

The TS cable has the following properties:
the cross-section A is 2×6 mm2
the length l is 10 m
the specific conductivity κ is 56 m/(Ω*mm2)
a 30 % increase in the wire’s resistance covers the thermal behavior and all other effects during a short-circuit event
Select the rated current In and breaking capability Icn of the TS energy storage circuit-breaker, such that
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire triggers instantaneous tripping
a short circuit event at any point of the TS wire can be interrupted
the maximum possible rated current is chosen, although the value might be well above the typical continuous current rating of the cable
available values for the rated current In have a step of 10 A (e.g. 10 A, 20 A, 30 A)
the minimum possible breaking capability is chosen
available values of the breaking capability Icn have a step of 10 kA (e.g. 40 kA, 50 kA, 60 kA)
Give the rated current In in A and the breaking capability Icn in kA in the following format: In, Icn e.g. 123, 456

8. Given is a parallel-plate capacitor with area A, separated by a uniform gap of thickness d1 filled with a dielectric with permittivity ε. At time t1, the voltage of the capacitor is V1. The capacitor is not connected to any electrical network.
How much energy is needed to change the plate spacing to d2 = 4 × d1?

9. The truss structure shown in the figure is loaded with the forces F1, F2 and F3. The truss structure is supported in points A and B, as shown. Each segment of the truss structure is assumed to have no mass and infinite stiffness.
a = 2 m, F1 = 6 kN, F2 = 13 kN, F3 = 13 kN
Calculate the force in A and B in y-direction in kN. Enter the higher value. Round to one decimal.
(answer can be positiv or negativ but only negativ answers will be accepted)

10.

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

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

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

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

4. Mark all true statements according to the FS Rules

1. 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

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

3. 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

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

5. 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.

6. 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)

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

8. 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.

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

10. 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

1. 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%

2. 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

3. 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.

4. A refrigeration unit cools water of mass 3 kg by 33 °C. Find the thermal energy removed from the water. The specific heat capacity of water is 4186 J/kg celsius. Give answer to three significant figures in kJ.

5. 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.

6. The previous season you could recuperate only 25% of your initially stored energy, but this season a big improvement in your drivetrain allows you to recuperate 63% of the initially stored energy.  Knowing that you had 9.6 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 to one decimal place.

7. 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

8. 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)

9. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 9.6 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 1.9 m/s. At what time does it reach this height on the way down? Give both answers separated by a comma to one decimal place.

10. 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.