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Advanced Surveying problems


  • 1. Limiting gradient for locating the base line on evenly-sloping ground, is

  • Options
  • A. 1 in 12
  • B. 1 in 10
  • C. 1 in 8
  • D. 1 in 6.
  • Discuss
  • 2. Pick up the correct statement from the following :

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  • A. North end of the polar axis is known as north pole
  • B. South end of the polar axis is known as south pole
  • C. Point where polar axis when produced northward intersects the celestial sphere, is known as north celestial pole
  • D. Point where polar axis when produced southward intersects the celestial sphere, is known as south celestial pole
  • E. all the above.
  • Discuss
  • 3. The length of a parallel of ? latitude between two meridians is equal to difference in logitudes multiplied by

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  • A. sin ?
  • B. cos ?
  • C. tan ?
  • D. cot ?.
  • Discuss
  • 4. Pick up the incorrect statement from the following. In a spherical triangle

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  • A. every angle is less than two right angles
  • B. sum of the three angles is equal to two right angles
  • C. sum of the three angles less than six right angles and greater than two right angles
  • D. if the sum of any two sides is ?, the sum of the angles opposite them is also ?
  • E. sum of any two sides is greater than the third.
  • Discuss
  • 5. The value of geo-centric parallax to be added to the observed altitude of sun is

  • Options
  • A. 9" cos ?
  • B. 9" sin ?
  • C. 9" tan ?
  • D. 9" cot ?.
  • Discuss
  • 6. The great circle which passes through the zenith, nadir and the poles, is known as

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  • A. meridian
  • B. vertical circle
  • C. prime vertical
  • D. none of these.
  • Discuss
  • 7. The nautical mile is the length of

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  • A. 1 minute of latitude
  • B. 1 minute of longitude
  • C. 1 degree of latitude
  • D. 1 degree of longitude.
  • Discuss
  • 8. The altitudes of a circumpolar star at culminations are 70° and 10°, both culminations being north of zenith. The declination of the star, is

  • Options
  • A. 80°
  • B. 70°
  • C. 60°
  • D. 50°
  • E. 40°.
  • Discuss
  • 9. In a spherical triangle ABC right angled at C, sin b equals to

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  • A. sin c sin B
  • B. cos c cos B
  • C. tan c tan B
  • D. sin c cos B
  • E. cos c sin B.
  • Discuss
  • 10. The solar tidal force divided by lunar tidal force is

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  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D. .
  • Discuss

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