Q. A standard steel tape of length 30 m and cross-section 15 x 1.0 mm was standardised at 25°C and at 30 kg pull. While measuring a base line at the same temperature, the pull applied was 40 kg. If the modulus of elasticity of steel tape is 2.2 x 10⁶ kg/cm², the correction to be applied is

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Q. The bearing of AB is 190° and that of CB is 260° 30'. The included angle ABC, is

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Q. The power of a lens

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Q. In an adjusted level, when the bubble is central, the axis of the bubble tube becomes parallel to

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Q. The total change in level along the line is equal to total back sights

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Q. ABCD is a rectangular plot of land. If the bearing of the side AB is 75°, the bearing of DC is

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Q. Grid lines are parallel to

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Q. Total latitude of a point is positive if it lies

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Q. In levelling operation,

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Q. The apparent error on reversal is

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Q. Magnetic declination at any place

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Q. Systematic errors are those errors

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Q. If L is in kilometres, the curvature correction is

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Q. There are two stations A and B. Which of the following statements is correct :

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Q. Chain surveying is well adopted for

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Q. In a closed traverse, sum of south latitudes exceeds the sum of north latitudes and the sum of east departures exceeds the sum of west departures, then, the closing line will lie in

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Q. A sewer is laid from a manhole A to a manhole B, 250 m away along a gradient of 1 in 125. If the reduced level of the invert at A is 205.75 m and the height of the boning rod is 3 m, the reduced level of the sight rail at B, is

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Q. The Huygen's telescope eye piece

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Q. The operation of resection involves the following steps

1. rough orientation of the plane table
2. the three lines form a triangle of error
3. drawing lines back through the three control points
4. select a point in the triangle of error such that each ray is equally rotated either clockwise or anti clockwise
5. the points obtained by three rays is the correct location.

The correct sequence is

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Q. To avoid large centering error with very short legs, observations are generally made

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