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  • Question
  • Location of contour gradient for a high way is best set out from


  • Options
  • A. ridge down the hill
  • B. saddle down the hill
  • C. bottom to the ridge
  • D. bottom to the saddle.

  • Correct Answer
  • saddle down the hill 


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    • 1. Correction per chain length of 100 links along a slope of ?° is

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. 1.5?3.
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    • 2. If i is the stadia distance, f is the focal length and d is the distance between the objective and vertical axis of the techeometer, the multiplying constant, is

    • Options
    • A. f/i
    • B. i/f
    • C. (f + d)
    • D. f/d.
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    • 3. If 50 m point of a 100 m tape is 50 cm off line, and 50 m sections are straight, an error is generated equal to

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. .
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    • 4. The angle of intersection of a curve is the angle between

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    • A. back tangent and forward tangent
    • B. prolongation of back tangent and forward tangent
    • C. forward tangent and long chord
    • D. back tangent and long chord.
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    • 5. While setting a plane table at a station it was found that the error in centering was 30 cm away from the ray of length 40 m drawn from the station. If the scale of the plan is 1 cm = 2 cm, the displacement of the end of the ray in plan from the true position will be

    • Options
    • A. 0.02 cm
    • B. 0.15 cm
    • C. 02 cm
    • D. 0.1 cm
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    • 6. Staff readings on pegs x and y from X station are 1.755 m and 2.850 m, and from station Y on staff head at Y and X are 0.655 m and 1.560 m. If reduced level of X is 105.5 m, the reduced level of Y is

    • Options
    • A. 104.0 m
    • B. 104.5 m
    • C. 105.0 m
    • D. 105.5 m
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    • 7. Stadia techeometry was discovered by James Watt in the year.

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    • A. 1670
    • B. 1770
    • C. 1870
    • D. 1900.
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    • 8. The correction to be applied to each 30 metre chain length along ?° slope, is

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    • A. 30 (sec ? - 1) m
    • B. 30 (sin ? - 1) m
    • C. 30 (cos ? - 1) m
    • D. 30 (tan ? - 1) m
    • E. 30 (cot ? - 1) m.
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    • 9. The constant vertical distance between two adjacent contours, is called

    • Options
    • A. horizontal interval
    • B. horizontal equivalent
    • C. vertical equivalent
    • D. contour interval
    • E. contour gradient.
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    • 10. The combined effect of curvature and refraction over a distance L kilometres is

    • Options
    • A. 67.2 L2 mm
    • B. 76.3 L2 mm
    • C. 64.5 L2 mm
    • D. none of these.
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