Quiz Preparation

1. What is the minimum tread depth of the rain tires?

2. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

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

4. What must the Technical Vehicle System Documentation include?

5. What does a black flag mean?

6. Which system is the content of CCBOM in 2026?

7. What is the length of the acceleration track?

8. During the BPP, who is allowed to answer questions from the judges?

9. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

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

1. What is the minimum height of the characters of the car number?

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

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

4. Which statements are correct? (multiple choice)

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

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

7. How many different tyre sizes can be used on a car during an Autocross run?

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

9. 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?

10. 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 950 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 70 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

11. What is the minimum diameter of a shutdown button placed on the side of the vehicle behind the driver’s compartment?

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

13. What are not the diameter of the skidpad circles? (Multiple choice)

14. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 4.0 secs but knocks down 11 cones. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.1 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

15. 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.

16. Your team reiceves 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.

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

18. What does a black flag mean?

19. What is the minimum diameter of the shutdown button in the cockpit?

20. 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?

1. 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.

2. How long will it take to discharge C1 below 60V using the following constant current sink if it is initially charged at 565V? (MOSFET’s VGSth: 4V) Give answer to two decimal places in secs.

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

4. 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)

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

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

7. 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

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

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

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

1. An object is fired vertically upwards from the ground at time t = 0 s in still air at a speed of 8.0 m/s. On the way up, what is the height of the object above the ground when it has a speed of 2.0 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.

2. 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.

3. A racing car rolls to a stop on a horizontal course with an initial speed of v. It decelerates
only by friction with a rolling resistance of μF, which is supposed to be independent of
the current velocity.
What is the distance s the car needs to stop?
v = 230mph, μF = 0.17, g = 9.81 m/s2.
Give your answer in meters, rounded to four significant places.

4. 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%

5.

6. The magnitude of the manifold reaction force FK is to be determined. In Newton, integer, no unit in the answer

7. For a horizontally positioned, non-insulated steam pipe with a length of l=3 m and a diameter of d_a=0.1 the convective heat loss Q_point is to be calculated. The temperature of the surrounding air is θ_f=30∘C and that of the outer wall surface is θ_w=170∘C.

Input the result in kW and round to two decimal numbers seperated by a point without thr unit (example: 145.35)

8. 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.

9. A lorry contains an engine with a power of 2.78 J/s. The lorry drives for 36 mins. Calculate the energy transferred in kJ rounded to three decimal places.

10. Using an indicator, the cylinder pressure can be plotted as a curve over the piston stroke. The curve recorded for the compression stroke of an internal combustion engine can be approximated by the relationship p⋅V^n=const..
What is the amount of work done by the volume change if the following values are given?

given: V_1=10^-3 m^3; p_1=0.1 MPa; p_2=3 MPa; n=1.3

Round to one decimal number seperated by a point. Input in Joul without writing the unit in the field below (example: 152.9).