Name: Regalado, Shania Mikaella Weather: Sunny and cloudy

Group No: 2 Place: Plaza Independencia

Designation: Pacing Time, Start: 8:30
Instructor: Engr. Roy J. Basar End: 11:30

I. OBJECTIVES
a) To determine the individual’s pace factor
b) To measure distance by pacing
II. INSTRUMENTS
a) 3 pcs- range poles
b) 5 pcs- marking pins
c) 1 pc- measuring tape
III. PROCEDURE
Determine Pace Factor
a) On a straight and plane level course, set two marking pins at 50 meters apart. Designate these
points as A and B.
b) Drive range poles behind the end points to serve guides during actual pacing.
c) Walk over the course at a natural pace from A and count the number of paces to reach B.
d) In the succeeding trials, walk from B to A, then A to B, until 5 trials are completed.
e) Record the number of paces in each trial.
Measuring Distance by Pacing
a) Set two marking pins at unknown distance apart. Designate these end points as C and D.
b) Drive range poles behind the end points to serve as guides during actual pacing.
c) Walk from C to D, then D to C, until 5 trials are made. Record the number of paces in each
trial.
d) Make an actual taping of the course CD to determine the taped distance.

REMARKS:
1) In walking over the course, try to maintain a constant pace and avoid the tendency to increase or
decrease the length of the pace.
2) Care should be taken to walk in a straight line. It is good to practice to fix one’s eyes on a distant object
along the range behind the pole when pacing.
3) Estimate the pace to the nearest quarter of a pace. Discard any widely divergent result in the
computations and perform one more trial.
4) The pace factor usually varies from 0.70 m to 0.75 m per pace and the accepted precision for the
distances measured by pacing is from 1/200 to 1/500.
5) The length of pace can be measured from toe to toe or from heel to heel (a double step is called a
stride).
IV. FINDINGS
a) Determining the Pace Factor
Tape Distance AB = 100 m
TRIAL LINE NUMBER OF PACES
1 AB 140
2 BA 139
3 AB 138
4 BA 139
5 AB 138
6 BA 139
7 AB 138
8 BA 138
9 AB 139
10 BA 138
N= 10 SUM = 1386
Mean no. of paces = sum/n = 1386/10 = 138.6
Pace Factor, PF = Taped distance/Mean no. of paces = 100/138.6 = 0.722

b) Estimating Distance by Pacing

TRIAL LINE NUMBER OF PACES
1 CD 163
2 DC 161
3 CD 163
4 DC 163
5 CD 161
6 DC 163
7 CD 162
8 DC 162
9 CD 163
10 DC 162
N= 10 SUM = 1623
Tape Distance CD = 116 m
Mean No. of Paces = sum/n= 1623/10= 162.3
Pace distance = (MP)(PF)= (162.3)(0.722)= 117.181
Relative Precision, RP = - 0.01018103
COMMENTS:

Enumerate and discuss some of the factors that affect the accuracy of your computed pace factor.

1. Being disturbed by my classmates/friends ,they intend to count aloud whenever we met in the
centre to make you loss track on counting.

2. Being distracted by noise that made me stop for a bit, which lead to some errors in counting .

SKETCH
 CONCLUSION

The first field work,

Pacing was very successful ,
with the instrument used to
measure the tape distance
and with the formulas it was
easy to measure it. Walking
back-and-forth towards the
points A, B, C, and D, we
understand how such errors
and mistakes can affect the
counting of steps in Pacing
and the measurement of the
distance. The relative
precision was over the taped
distance with a record of -
0.01018103 , it depicts that the paced distance was somewhat higher from the original
taped distance. Hence, the pace factor is the primary motivation behind giving the
relative precision and furthermore the principle reason for this hands on work
practice and supportive to those beginner surveyors.
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