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  • During levelling if back sight is more than foresight


  • Options
  • A. The forward staff is at lower point
  • B. The back staff is at lower point
  • C. The difference in level, cannot be ascertained.
  • D. none of these.

  • Correct Answer
  • The back staff is at lower point 


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    • 1. The surface of zero elevation around the earth, which is slightly irregular and curved, is known as

    • Options
    • A. mean sea level
    • B. geoid surface
    • C. level surface
    • D. horizontal surface.
    • Discuss
    • 2. The theodolites used for making tacheometric observations by optical wedge system, are

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    • 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.
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    • 3. 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

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    • A. 0.015 m
    • B. 0.030 m
    • C. 0.045 m
    • D. 0.060 m
    • Discuss
    • 4. The combined effect of curvature and refraction over a distance L kilometres is

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    • A. 67.2 L2 mm
    • B. 76.3 L2 mm
    • C. 64.5 L2 mm
    • D. none of these.
    • Discuss
    • 5. The constant vertical distance between two adjacent contours, is called

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    • A. horizontal interval
    • B. horizontal equivalent
    • C. vertical equivalent
    • D. contour interval
    • E. contour gradient.
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    • 6. The representation of general topography of a very flat terrain is possible only

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    • A. by drawing contours at large interval
    • B. by drawing contours at small interval
    • C. by giving spot levels at large interval
    • D. by giving spot levels to salient features at close interval.
    • Discuss
    • 7. The Trapezoidal rule of volumes V of an embankment divided into a number of sections equidistant D, is given by

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    • A.
    • B.
    • C. V = [A1 + An + 2(A2 + A4 + ... + An - 1) + 4(A3 + A5 + ... + An - 2)]
    • D. V = [A1 + An + 4(A2 + A4 + ... + An - 1) + 4(A3 + A5 + ... + An - 2)].
    • Discuss
    • 8. Pick up the correct statement from the following

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    • A. the contour lines having the same elevation cannot unite and continue as one line
    • B. a contour can not end abruptly, but must ultimately close itself not necessarily within the limits of map.
    • C. the direction of steepest slope at a point on a contour is at right angles to the contour
    • D. all the above.
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    • 9. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

    • Options
    • A. The directions of plumb lines suspended at different points in a survey are not strictly parallel
    • B. In surveys of small extent, the effect of curvature may be ignored and the level surface of the earth is assumed as horizontal
    • C. In surveys of large extent, the effect of curvature of the earth must be considered
    • D. All the above.
    • Discuss
    • 10. Correction per chain length of 100 links along a slope of ? radians, is

    • Options
    • A. 100 ?2
    • B. 100 ?
    • C. 100 ?3
    • D. 100 ?-1.
    • Discuss


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