Quiz Preparation

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

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

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

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

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

6. What is IMD short for ?

7. 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)

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

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

10. How many cones do you need to build the skidpad track

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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.

2. What are requirements of using a standard Impact Attenuator?

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

4.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

5. 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.

6. What does the red flag mean during the driving disciplines?

7. 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

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

9. What does a black flag mean?

10.

The Electrical System Officer must: (Multiple Choice)

11. Your team completes their best manual skidpad run in 5.1 secs but goes off course. The fastest team overall completed their run in 4.6 secs. How many points did your team recieve for skidpad? Round to one decimal place.

12. 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

13. 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

14.

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. (FS2025 Rules)

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

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

18. 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.

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

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

1. 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

2. 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

3. 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

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

5. Which statements about the travel of the driving pedal is correct

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

7. 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

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

9. Which of the following statements about the Tractive System Accumulator are wrong? (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. In a gas pipe, the gas pressure pG is measured using a U-tube manometer connected at the bottom. Above the meniscus of the measuring liquid (mercury with density ρQ) on the gas side, there is a column of water with height h₂ and density ρW.
Question:
What negative pressure △pU (vacuum) exists in the pipe compared to the external pressure p₀?

Result in Pa, two decimal numbers seperated by a point (exp. 15.3). Do not put the Unit in the field below.

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. 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.

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 water tank under a pressure of p = 117.72 kPa has three pipes connected to it, which are sealed 5 meters below the water surface by three plates with areas A₁, A₂, and A₃.
Task:
Sort the pressures p₁, p₂, and p₃ according to their magnitude.

6. 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.

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8. 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.

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.