QUIZ 1 REVIEW

ANGLES

100

DMS stands for this

what is Degrees, Minutes, Seconds?

200

Degrees and seconds can never be greater than this number

what is 60?

300

This is the conversion from seconds to degrees

What is 3600"/degree?

400

40.6789^o is this in DMS

What is 40^o 40' 44" ?

500

12^o 53' 22" is this in DD

12.8894^o

STATIONING

100

Stationing is used for this during projects

What are roadway alignments, channel alignments, storm drain alignments?

200

Stationing is reported as this type of a distance

What is a horizontal distance?

300

This station is 40 feet down-station of STA 13+27

What is STA 12+87?

400

The distance between STA 17+68 and STA 45+91

What is 2,823 feet?

500

This is the station halfway between STA 10+50 and STA 16+72

What is STA 13+61?

MISC.

100

Being customer focused is an important part of being an engineer

what is yes?

200

These are inevitable in surveying. We do our best to mitigate and correct

Mistakes

300

This is the vertical angle measured

Alpha

400

This is the error caused by the earth being a geoid

Curvature and refraction

500

Engineers report slope like this typically

What is H:V?

LEVELING

100

These are the instruments we use for leveling

Rod leveler, level rod, tripod, autolevel

200

The tripod should be raised to this height before placing the instrument

What is chin height?

300

This is the equation that determines an unknown elevation

Elev = HI - FS

400

Your starting elevation is 100'. Your backsight to the benchmark is 6.32'. The foresight to TP1 is 4.23'. This is the height of instrument for your first setup

106.32'

500

Your starting elevation is 100'. Your backsight to the benchmark is 6.32'. The foresight to TP1 is 4.23'. This is the elevation of TP1

102.09'