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  • Question
  • In a tropical year, the number of sidereal days are


  • Options
  • A. one less than mean solar days
  • B. one more than mean solar days
  • C. equal to mean solar days
  • D. none of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • one more than mean solar days 


  • Advanced Surveying problems


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    • 1. The relief displacement of a minar 72 m high on photograph is 7.2 mm and its top appears 10 cm away from principal point. The flying height of the camera, is

    • Options
    • A. 500 m
    • B. 1000 m
    • C. 1500 m
    • D. 2000 m.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The angle between the plane of the equator and the plane of the ecliptic, is known as obliquity of the ecliptic and its value is

    • Options
    • A. 22° 30'
    • B. 23° 27'
    • C. 23° 30'
    • D. 24° 0'.
    • Discuss
    • 3. By raising the z-column of right projector, maximum y-parallax is introduced in the model at

    • Options
    • A. position 1
    • B. position 2
    • C. position 4
    • D. position 6
    • E. position 4 and 6.
    • Discuss
    • 4. The position of a heavenly body on the celestial sphere can be completely specified by

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    • A. its altitude and azimuth
    • B. its declination and hour angle
    • C. its declination and right ascension
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The angle between the direction of star and the direction of earth's axis of rotation is called

    • Options
    • A. co-declination
    • B. co-latitude
    • C. declination
    • D. latitude.
    • Discuss
    • 6. At western elongation, the pole star moves

    • Options
    • A. eastward
    • B. westward
    • C. northward
    • D. southward.
    • Discuss
    • 7. If ? and ? be the latitude of an observer and declination of a heavenly body respectively, the upper culmination of the body will be south of zenith if its zenith distance, is

    • Options
    • A. ? - ?
    • B. ? - ?
    • C. ? + ?
    • D. (? - ?).
    • Discuss
    • 8. Latitude of a place is the angular distance from

    • Options
    • A. Greenwich to the place
    • B. equator to the poles
    • C. equator to the nearer pole
    • D. equator to the nearer pole along the meridian of the place
    • E. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 9. The necessary geometrical condition for triangulation adjustment, is :

    • Options
    • A. The sum of the angles around a station should be 360°
    • B. The sum of the three angles of a plane triangle should be 180°
    • C. The sum of the eight angles of a braced quadrilateral should be 360°
    • D. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Triangulation surveys are carried out for locating

    • Options
    • A. control points for surveys of large areas
    • B. control points for photogrammetric surveys
    • C. engineering works, i.e. terminal points of long tunnels, bridge abutments, etc.
    • D. all the above.
    • Discuss


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