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Discussion Forum : Surveying - Section 2 (Q.No. 29)
29.
A back sight
is always taken on a point of known elevation or can be computed
is added to the known level to obtain the instrument height
taken on an inverted staff is treated as negative
all the above.
Answer: Option
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ABHAY said:   10 years ago
Q1 RL 30.5 (factory floor)staff reading of floor 1.61 staff reading when staff is inverts with bottom touching tie beam of truss is 3.7 m find height of tie beam above floor,

Khan said:   5 years ago
What about the 3rd point please explain anyone ?

Ashik said:   3 years ago
@Khan.

Taken on an inverted staff is treated as negative.

Its known elevation is above. As like a shade with 2.10m in height. Then inverted staff is used to measure downwards from shade to the below point. So the reading is negative & the Value is subtracted.

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