TRIGONOMETRIC LEVELING. A vertical angle of -12°25’ is measured to the top of a water tank from an instrument set up on a hill 585.00 meters away from it. The telescope of the instrument is 1.45 m above the ground whose elevation is 462.73 m. Making due allowance for the earth’s curvature and atmospheric refraction, determine the elevation of the base of the water tank is the tank is 32.0 m high. with complete solution adn figure of
TRIGONOMETRIC LEVELING. A vertical angle of -12°25’ is measured to the top of a water tank from an instrument set up on a hill 585.00 meters away from it. The telescope of the instrument is 1.45 m above the ground whose elevation is 462.73 m. Making due allowance for the earth’s curvature and atmospheric refraction, determine the elevation of the base of the water tank is the tank is 32.0 m high. with complete solution adn figure of
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TRIGONOMETRIC LEVELING. A vertical angle of -12°25’ is measured to the top of a water tank from an instrument set up on a hill 585.00 meters away from it. The telescope of the instrument is 1.45 m above the ground whose elevation is 462.73 m. Making due allowance for the earth’s curvature and atmospheric refraction, determine the elevation of the base of the water tank is the tank is 32.0 m high.
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