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Compass Surveying: Bearings and Local Attraction

This tutorial sheet covers compass surveying and contains examples related to determining bearings, local attraction, declination, traversing, and accuracy checking. It defines terms like magnetic declination, dip, isogonic lines, fore and back bearings. Examples include calculating widths of rivers from bearings, correcting compass readings, and multiple choice questions about back bearings, traverse corrections, and simultaneous field observations and plotting.

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Compass Surveying: Bearings and Local Attraction

This tutorial sheet covers compass surveying and contains examples related to determining bearings, local attraction, declination, traversing, and accuracy checking. It defines terms like magnetic declination, dip, isogonic lines, fore and back bearings. Examples include calculating widths of rivers from bearings, correcting compass readings, and multiple choice questions about back bearings, traverse corrections, and simultaneous field observations and plotting.

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TUTORIAL SHEET 3

Chapter 3 Compass Surveying


[Advantages and disadvantages of compass surveying, bearings and angles, prismatic

compass, local attraction, dip and declination, compass traversing.]

Ex.3-1 What does traverse surveying mean? Distinguish between closed and open traverse.
Ex.3-2 What is local attraction? What is the basic procedure to check for local attraction and
doing the correction in closed traverse?
Ex.3-3 What is closing error in a traverse?
Ex.3-4 What are the precautions to be taken in compass traversing?
Ex.3-5 Define:
Magnetic Declination; Dip of magnetic needle; Isogonic Line and Local Attraction.
Ex.3-6 How would you check the accuracy of open traverse and closed traverse?
Ex.3-7 To determine the width of a river, a chain line PQR was laid across it, the points O and R
being on two sides of river. From point S, 60m from Q on line QS which was at right angles to
PQ, the bearings of points R and P were found 2800 and 1900 respectively. If the distance PQ
was 32m, determine QR and draw the sketch.
Ex.3-8 The following fore bearing and back bearing were observed while traversing an area with
a compass:
Line

FB

BB

PQ

S 37 30 E

N 37030 W

QR

S 43015 W

N 44015 E

RS

N 73000 W

S 72015 E

ST

N 12045 E

S 13015 W

TP

N 60000 E

S 59015 W

Find the corrected bearing of the line.

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Engineering Survey I

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College

TUTORIAL SHEET 3

Ex.3-9 Define the following


a)
b)
c)
d)
e)
f)

Whole circle bearing and reduced bearing


Fore bearing and Back Bearing
True Meridian and Magnetic Meridian
Magnetic Declination
Dip of the magnetic needle and
Local attraction

Ex.3-10 A line was shown to a magnetic bearing of 35015 in an old map, when the declination
was 13045E. To what bearing should it be set now if the present magnetic declination is 4015W.
Ex.3-11 MCQ
1. In quadrantal bearing system, back bearing of a line may be obtained from its forward bearing, by
A.

adding 180, if the given bearing is less than 180

B.

subtracting 180, if the given bearing, is more than 180

C.

changing the cardinal points, i.e. substituting N for S and E for W and vice-versa

D.

none of these.

If L is the perimeter of a closed traverse, D is the closing error in departure, the correction for the
departure of a traverse side of length l, according to Bowditch rule, is
A.

B.

C.

D.

sanjitkc93@[Link]

Engineering Survey I

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College

TUTORIAL SHEET 3
Pick up the method of surveying in which field observations and plotting proceed simultaneously from
the following
A.

chain surveying

B.

compass surveying

C.

plan table surveying

D.

tacheometric surveying.

Ex.3-12

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Engineering Survey I

Jigme Namgyel Engineering College

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