TGE Department TR 111

TUTORIAL QUESTIONS 8th Dec 2017

1. Distinguish between the following pairs of terms:
i) Gross Error and Random Error
ii) Ranging and Chaining
iii) Accuracy and Precision
iv) Step Chaining and Slope Chaining
v) Chainage and Offset
vi) Backsight and Foresight
vii) Benchmark and datum
viii) Line of collimation and height of collimation
ix) Levelling and chaining

2. List three factors that one must consider when selecting stations for a chain survey

3. List three types of systematic errors in taping

4. State three ways of obtaining a rectangular offset from a chain line

5. State 6 factors that could affect the accuracy of a levelling exercise apart from a
collimation error in the instrument

6. State the aid of the two-peg test.

Outline the procedure of carrying out a two-peg test.
7. Below is an extract of a leveling field notebook, of a survey carried out at a construction
site.
a. By use of the height of collimation method, make the necessary reductions and
find the reduced levels. Make the necessary checks.
sight Inter. sight Foresight HI Reduced Remarks
levels (m)
0.431 75.445
0.204
0.314
0.040
2.149 0.013
2.343
3.831
2.048

b. Compute and make all necessary checks using rise and fall method