Elementary Surveying 5th ed. - Vintage Hardcover

Description: Thank you for looking at our listing. A purchase supports Friends of Spanish Peaks Library District! These books are donated from different sources. This book is in good condition, minor tear on a couple of pages, underlining on pages, see photos for details. I will combine shipping for each additional item purchased. Please do not pay for books until you are done bidding/shopping, and I will create a new Invoice with the reduced shipping charges. Please, I cannot issue refunds due to penalties that EBay assesses. Feel free to submit any questions you have. Thanks! The fifth edition of ELEMENTARY SURVEYING continues the approach of the third and fourth editions which emphasized fundamental theory and procedures while still giving practical hints and illustrations not covered generally or at all elsewhere. Many remarks made in the fourth edition Preface apply also to this revision and are noted again. Slight to major changes or additions have been made in every chapter including 1) Expanded information on government agencies and mapping. 2) Data on automatic reading and recording systems plus more suggestions on notekeeping. 3) Rewritten and updated material on the tellurometer, electro-tape, and geodimeter with a new table on the characteristics of all known electronic distance measuring instruments. 4) Discussion of the laser and its applications in several chapters, and the airborne profile recorder. 5) New instrument illustrations. An interlocking 2-loop level circuit adjustment with an ex-ample. 7) 8) A new chart on the distribution of magnetic declinations. Analysis of the number of instrument pointings to balance sighting and reading errors. Description of the angles-to-the-right method. 10) An illustrative calculation of latitudes and departures using natural functions (but retaining the example with logarithms), and a Fortran program with output listing. 11) 13) 14) Five (instead of three) methods of traverse adjustment. 12) Additional material on contours. Some rearrangement of instrument adjustment items. Updated field astronomy example solutions with new technical and general points of interest. viti Completely rewritten chapter on Photogrammetry. 15) 16) 17) A listing of slope staking steps and numerical example. Circular curve layout by tangent offsets with a problem illus-tration. 18) Revision of the sight distance formula and examples to fit the changed height-of-eye specification. Mention of the mass diagram. 19) 20) Improved optical alignment equipment and utilization of the laser. 21) A new chapter on State Plane Coordinates, with numerical example, in Appendix A. 22) An increased number of problems at the end of each chapter and the data changed for old ones to provide over 1,000 homework problems (up from 653 and enough for many semesters without repeating). A solutions manual is available for the first time. Some problems are carried through several chapters so progressive steps in their completion can be fol-lowed. 23) Elimination of the log tables and enlargement of the natural function tables from 5 to 7 places for accuracy in handling desk calculator computations requiring 5 significant figures. Stress in text and problems is placed upon the theory of errors and optics; correlation of theory and practical field methods; elimination of typical errors and mistakes; significant figures; use of basic values such as sin 1 min = 0.0003 and sin 1° = 0.01¾ in solving ordinary problems without tables or slide rule; and the interdependence of field, computation, and mapping requirements. Engineers, architects, geologists, and foresters must be able to make measurements and analyze the precision and accuracy of the results obtained by other people. They should be qualified to properly locate and set machinery; to lay out houses, buildings, and other common structures; and to understand and prepare simple topographic maps. Each of these areas is discussed, and proper field procedures to obtain a desired precision are noted. A few cost figures are introduced so that students will learn early in their college work to associate the three bases of engineering practice theory, application, and costs. All surveying is a constant fight to eliminate or isolate errors and mistakes. In each chapter the student is reminded of this point, through lists of typical errors and mistakes. Although the third, fourth, and fifth editions retain the title ELEMENTARY SURVEYING, the material goes beyond the elementary stage in length and scope. The large number of chapters, however, permits inclusion or omission of subjects to correspond with the class time available for students in civil engineering, other engineering curricula, architecture, geology, and forestry. The easy-reading qualities of the previous editions have been retained by keeping short lines for ready scanning and fewer lines per page. Chapters are arranged in the order found most convenient at numerous colleges. Fundamental material is collected in the first sixteen chapters comprising Part I. Theory and use of the four fundamental surveying instruments the tape, level, transit, and plane table are described in detail, and new types of equipment noted. Any chapter following Chapter 11 can be omitted without loss of continuity, although many of them are short enough to be suitable for a single assignment. Limited coverage of such subjects as photogrammetry, field astronomy, boundary surveys, and industrial applications of surveying methods is given in Part Il to fit various programs offered. For example, the brief chapter on boundary surveys is intended to make students aware of a few problems involved in the survey and transfer of property, and the legal requirements of professional regis-tration. Some instructors give broad survey-type courses and want their students to get an over-all view of the many surveying func-tions. It is believed that the arrangement in scope of material presented herein will meet that need also. Taping, leveling, and transit work are taken up in or order because students find it easier to acquire some facility with the equipment in that sequence, and because this arrangement permits the start and continuation of field work with a minimum of lecture time. The suggested order of field assignments given in Appendix A makes it possible to begin effective computation and drafting-room problems after just a few periods in the field if bad weather is encountered. The difficulty in getting through all of the preliminary material (basic concepts of the profession, history, theory of errors, and methods of notekeeping) before commencing field work during the first week is recognized. Nevertheless the author feels that these topics must precede the theory and use of instruments. The subject of notes and noteforms-an important part of sur-veying and engineering-is discussed in a separate chapter. Most of the sample noteforms are collected in Appendix A instead of being scattered throughout the text. Suggestions and criticism will be greatly appreciated.

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