State Board of Technical Education & Training, A.

P, Hyderabad
C-09
D C E III SEMESTER
C-305, Surveying II
UNIT TEST-1
Duration: 1 Hour

Maximum Marks : 20
Part A

3 X 2 = 6 marks

Answer all Questions

1. Define the following terms.
a) Line of collimation
b) Transiting
2. State an expression for height of the object when the base is inaccessible with usual
notations
3. What is Tacheometry? List the instruments needed for Tacheometry.

Part B

2 X 7 = 14 marks

Answer any TWO Questions

4. Given the following latitudes and departures of the sides of the closed traverse ABCDE,
Calculate the area of the traverse by using independent coordinate method.
Line
AB
BC
CD
DE
EA

Latitude (m)
-365.26
+489.45
+990.35
-537.99
-576.55

Departure (m)
+626.24
+940.24
-762.68
-776.92
-26.88

5. a) State any four instrumental and four personal errors in the theodolite survey?
(3 marks)
b) Find the elevation of the top of a lightning conductor from the following data:
Inst.

Reading on

Angle of elevation

Station
A

BM
0.648

220 00

Remarks
i) RL of BM = +150.000
ii) Distance AB = 21m
(4 marks)

6. A Tacheometer with multiplying constant 100 and Additive constant zero was set up at an
intermediate station P on a line AB and the following observations were made on a
vertically held staff at A and B.
Instrument
at
P

Staff at
A
B

Vertical angle
0

+ 05 20 00
- 020 00 00

Stadia readings
1.800, 2.400, 3.000
1.350, 1.600, 1.850

Compute the Horizontal and vertical distances between A and B.