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Discussion Forum : Highway Engineering - Section 3 (Q.No. 23)
23.
The perpendicular offset from the tan-get to the central point of the circular curve, is
R sin θ/2
R cos θ/2
R (1 - cos θ/2)
R (1 - sin θ/2)
none of these.
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Nitin said:   7 years ago
How is this? Please explain me.
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Anirban Roy said:   5 years ago
It is talking about apex distance and it should be R(secθ/2 -1).
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Ali said:   7 years ago
Cos θ/2 = R+E/ R.
And E = R(1-Cos θ).

Abebaw Demeke said:   1 week ago
It is an external distance (E) that can be calculated as Cos (θ/2) = Adj/Hypo=R/(E+R).

Then, it becomes, E = R * (Sec(θ/2)-1).

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