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  • Question
  • One of the tacheometric constants is additive, the other constant, is


  • Options
  • A. subtractive constant
  • B. multiplying constant
  • C. dividing constant
  • D. indicative constant.

  • Correct Answer
  • multiplying constant 


  • Surveying problems


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    • 1. Accuracy of 'fix' by two point problem, is

    • Options
    • A. bad
    • B. good
    • C. not reliable
    • D. unique.
    • Discuss
    • 2. While viewing through a level telescope and moving the eye slightly, a relative movement occurs between the image of the levelling staff and the cross hairs. The instrument is

    • Options
    • A. correctly focussed
    • B. not correctly focussed
    • C. said to have parallax
    • D. free from parallax.
    • Discuss
    • 3. If R is the radius of the main curve, ? the angle of deflection, S the shift and L the length of the transition curve, then, total tangent length of the curve, is

    • Options
    • A. (R - S) tan ?/2 - L/2
    • B. (R + S) tan ?/2 - L/2
    • C. (R + S) tan ?/2 + L/2
    • D. (R - S) tan ?/2 + L/2
    • E. (R - S) cos ?/2 + L/2
    • Discuss
    • 4. If ? is the vertical angle of an inclined sight, ? is the angle of tilt of the staff, the error

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The real image of an object formed by the objective, must lie

    • Options
    • A. in the plane of cross hairs
    • B. at the centre of the telescope
    • C. at the optical centre of the eye-piece
    • D. anywhere inside the telescope.
    • Discuss
    • 6. One of the Lehmann's rules of plane tabling, is

    • Options
    • A. location of the instrument station is always distant from each of the three rays from the known points in proportion to their distances
    • B. when looking in the direction of each of the given points, the instrument station will be on the right side of one and left side of the other ray
    • C. when the instrument station is outside the circumscribing circle its location is always on the opposite side of the ray to the most distant point as the inter-section of the other two rays
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

    • Options
    • A. Box sextant is used for the measurement of horizontal angles
    • B. Cross staff is used for setting out right angles
    • C. Gradiometer is used for setting out any required gradient
    • D. Line ranger is used for locating intermediate stations on a survey line
    • E. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 8. ABCD is a regular parallelogram plot of land whose angle BAD is 60°. If the bearing of the line AB is 30°, the bearing of CD, is

    • Options
    • A. 90°
    • B. 120°
    • C. 210°
    • D. 270°
    • Discuss
    • 9. The intercept of a staff

    • Options
    • A. is maximum if the staff is held truly normal to the line of sight.
    • B. is minimum if the staff is held truly normal to the line of sight.
    • C. decreases if the staff is tilted away from normal
    • D. increases if the staff is tilted towards normal.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Closed contours of decreasing values towards their centre, represent

    • Options
    • A. a hill
    • B. a depression
    • C. a saddle or pass
    • D. a river bed.
    • Discuss


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