Shock Value B

[hirasia]

Anyone know anything about how hard the test is, what they test us on?

my partner and I are bad at this event.

Different event coordinators/supervisors will give totally different tests. But there is a certain range of information they are allowed to test you on. It's in the rules. Do you have a copy?

I think I'm going to post one of my tests up on the test exchange. There may already be some up there but I'm not sure.

sorry, i'm totally bugging u with too many questions

thanks for the test

[ichaelm]

Anyone know anything about how hard the test is, what they test us on?

my partner and I are bad at this event.

Different event coordinators/supervisors will give totally different tests. But there is a certain range of information they are allowed to test you on. It's in the rules. Do you have a copy?

I think I'm going to post one of my tests up on the test exchange. There may already be some up there but I'm not sure.

sorry, i'm totally bugging u with too many questions

thanks for the test

You're welcome. I'll also post some real tests from previous competitions as soon as I can get the files.

[JSGandora]

Is it just my computer or is the Shock Value Wiki all messed up? For some reason, the LaTeX (I'm pretty sure it's LaTeX) isn't rendering and there's type like this:
Failed to parse (Missing texvc executable; please see math/README to configure.): (1/R_T)=(1/R_1)+(1/R_2)+(1/R_N...)
And throughout Episode 1 there's � appearing. I'm using Google Chrome.

And for some reason, when I look at the page with Internet Explorer 7, the LaTeX isn't rendering and in place of the , there are boxes (when I copy and past them, they turn out like this: �).

[robotman]

Yea LaTex is messed up at the moment it should be fixed soon

[JSGandora]

Quick question, will capacitors and R/C time constants be on the Shock Value test? It was on the Division C Circuit Theory test I took and the only problem with it was that I didn't know how to graph the voltage over time and the Voltage at a specific time after the capacitor began charging.

[ichaelm]

Quick question, will capacitors and R/C time constants be on the Shock Value test? It was on the Division C Circuit Theory test I took and the only problem with it was that I didn't know how to graph the voltage over time and the Voltage at a specific time after the capacitor began charging.

Is it in the rules?

My rules say: "Topics that must not be included in the competition are: semiconductors, AC circuit theory and devices, capacitors, inductors." (section 3 paragraph c)

So no.

[Kroll]

The Shock Value information is exceedingly easy to understand, and for that reason, they will make the test tedious and painful. Not only knowing the material, but being a good test-taker is important for this event.

[ichaelm]

The Shock Value information is exceedingly easy to understand, and for that reason, they will make the test tedious and painful. Not only knowing the material, but being a good test-taker is important for this event.

Exceedingly easy? I see where you're coming from; the nationals test last year was pretty basic, and so were some others I saw. But a test can certainly be hard and legal without being tedious and painful, and it's pretty closed-minded to assume that you understand everything there is to understand about Shock Value. It seems more likely to me that you just understand the exceedingly easy parts! For example, take a shot at this question, which stumped my teammates last year: What is the EMF induced in a loop of wire by a constant magnetic flux of 8 Webers?

Sorry if I sound condescending at all, but I'm just saying, you are never done studying!

[JSGandora]

@ichaelm, yeah, sorry, I didn't read the rules carefully enough. There will be no capacitors on the test.

So I guess R/C time constants aren't on the test (since they have to do with capacitors). Anyways, on the North Carolina Shock Value tests Lab section I got from my coach, it told me to build a circuit using a schematic given. The schematic had an inductor which the rules say not to use inductors in competitions...violation of the rules? And by the way, if this changes it in any way, the inductor had the label "Bulb".

[andrewwski]

The Shock Value information is exceedingly easy to understand, and for that reason, they will make the test tedious and painful. Not only knowing the material, but being a good test-taker is important for this event.

Exceedingly easy? I see where you're coming from; the nationals test last year was pretty basic, and so were some others I saw. But a test can certainly be hard and legal without being tedious and painful, and it's pretty closed-minded to assume that you understand everything there is to understand about Shock Value. It seems more likely to me that you just understand the exceedingly easy parts! For example, take a shot at this question, which stumped my teammates last year: What is the EMF induced in a loop of wire by a constant magnetic flux of 8 Webers?

Sorry if I sound condescending at all, but I'm just saying, you are never done studying!

Not a very difficult question...it's actually conceptual. Induced EMF would be zero, since the induced EMF is the rate of change of magnetic flux wrt time. Thus constant magnetic flux means an induced EMF of 0 V.