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DISTANCE BY SUBTENSE BAR. With The Use of A 1-Sec Theodolite

Using a theodolite positioned at the center of a six-sided lot, angles were measured to a 2-meter subtense bar located at each corner. The distances from the instrument to the six corners were calculated by taking the cotangent of half the measured angles and multiplying by the bar length of 2 meters. This yielded distances of 261.76 meters, 546.40 meters, 455.83 meters, 305.80 meters, 223.59 meters, and 699.20 meters for corners 1 through 6, respectively.

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DISTANCE BY SUBTENSE BAR. With The Use of A 1-Sec Theodolite

Using a theodolite positioned at the center of a six-sided lot, angles were measured to a 2-meter subtense bar located at each corner. The distances from the instrument to the six corners were calculated by taking the cotangent of half the measured angles and multiplying by the bar length of 2 meters. This yielded distances of 261.76 meters, 546.40 meters, 455.83 meters, 305.80 meters, 223.59 meters, and 699.20 meters for corners 1 through 6, respectively.

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4. DISTANCE BY SUBTENSE BAR.

With the use of a 1-sec theodolite


positioned at the center of a six-sided lot, the following readings were taken on a
2-m subtense bar setup at each corner: 0°26’16”, 0°12’35”, 0°15’05”, 0°22’29”,
0°30’45”, and 0°09’50”. Determine the distance of each corner from the
instrument position.

Given:

2-m subtense bar

Θ1= 0°26’16” Θ3=0°15’05” Θ5=0°30’45”

Θ2= 0°12’35” Θ4=0°22’29” Θ6=0°09’50”

Required:

Distance of each corner from the instrument position, D1, D2, D3, D4, D5, D6,

Illustration:

D2
D1
D3
D6
D4
D5

Solution:
0°26’16” 0°12’35” 0°15’05”
D1 = cot D2 = cot D3 = cot
2 2 2

D1 = 𝟐𝟔𝟏. 𝟕𝟔 𝒎 D2 = 𝟓𝟒𝟔. 𝟒𝟎 𝒎 D3 = 𝟒𝟓𝟓. 𝟖𝟑 𝒎


0°22’29” 0°30’45” 0°09’50”
D4 = cot D5 = cot D6 = cot
2 2 2

D4 = 𝟑𝟎𝟓. 𝟖𝟎 𝒎 D5 = 𝟐𝟐𝟑. 𝟓𝟗 𝒎 D6 = 𝟔𝟗𝟗. 𝟐𝟎 𝒎

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