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Surveying problems


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

  • Options
  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D. 1.5?3.
  • Discuss
  • 3. 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.
  • Discuss
  • 4. 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
  • 5. Stadia techeometry was discovered by James Watt in the year.

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