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  • The intercept of a staff


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  • 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.

  • Correct Answer
  • is minimum if the staff is held truly normal to the line of sight. 


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    • 1. 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

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    • A. 90°
    • B. 120°
    • C. 210°
    • D. 270°
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    • 2. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

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    • 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.
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    • 3. One of the Lehmann's rules of plane tabling, is

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    • 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.
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    • 4. One of the tacheometric constants is additive, the other constant, is

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    • A. subtractive constant
    • B. multiplying constant
    • C. dividing constant
    • D. indicative constant.
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    • 5. Accuracy of 'fix' by two point problem, is

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    • A. bad
    • B. good
    • C. not reliable
    • D. unique.
    • Discuss
    • 6. Closed contours of decreasing values towards their centre, represent

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    • A. a hill
    • B. a depression
    • C. a saddle or pass
    • D. a river bed.
    • Discuss
    • 7. Hydrographic surveys deal with the mapping of

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    • A. large water bodies
    • B. heavenly bodies
    • C. mountaineous region
    • D. canal system
    • E. movement of clouds.
    • Discuss
    • 8. The difference of level between a point below the plane of sight and one above, is the sum of two staff readings and an error would be produced equal to

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    • A. the distance between the zero of gradient and the foot of the staff
    • B. twice the distance between the zero of graduation and the foot of the staff
    • C. thrice the distance between the zero of graduation and the foot of the staff
    • D. none of the above.
    • Discuss
    • 9. In chain surveying field work is limited to

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    • A. linear measurements only
    • B. angular measurements only
    • C. both linear and angular measurements
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Diopter is the power of a lens having a focal length of

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    • A. 25 cm
    • B. 50 cm
    • C. 75 cm
    • D. 100 cm
    • E. 125 cm
    • Discuss


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