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  • Question
  • Stadia techeometry was discovered by James Watt in the year.


  • Options
  • A. 1670
  • B. 1770
  • C. 1870
  • D. 1900.

  • Correct Answer
  • 1770 


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    • 1. 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
    • Discuss
    • 2. 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.
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    • 3. Correction per chain length of 100 links along a slope of ?° is

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. 1.5?3.
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    • 4. 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.
    • Discuss
    • 5. 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

    • Options
    • A.
    • B.
    • C.
    • D. .
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    • 6. The correction to be applied to each 30 metre chain length along ?° slope, is

    • Options
    • 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.
    • Discuss
    • 7. 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.
    • Discuss
    • 8. 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.
    • Discuss
    • 9. A level when set up 25 m from peg A and 50 m from peg B reads 2.847 on a staff held on A and 3.462 on a staff held on B, keeping bubble at its centre while reading. If the reduced levels of A and B are 283.665 m and 284.295 m respectively, the collimation error per 100 m is

    • Options
    • A. 0.015 m
    • B. 0.030 m
    • C. 0.045 m
    • D. 0.060 m
    • Discuss
    • 10. The theodolites used for making tacheometric observations by optical wedge system, are

    • Options
    • A. provided with stadia hairs in front of eye piece
    • B. not provided with stadia hairs at all
    • C. fitted with a glass wedge inside the telescope
    • D. fitted with a glass wedge in front of telescope.
    • Discuss


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