City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2018 Engineering Question 18
Practice objective / multiple choice question 18 from the 2018 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Engineering examination.
A surveyor measures the height of a building using a clinometer placed \(50.0\ \text{m}\) from the base. The instrument reads an angle of elevation of \(30.0^{\circ}\). The clinometer has a known systematic error of +\(0.5^{\circ}\) (it reads too high) and a random error of \(\pm0.2^{\circ}\). The distance measurement has an uncertainty of \(\pm0.1\ \text{m}\). Using the corrected angle, estimate the building height and give the maximum possible absolute error (express the result as "height \(\pm\) error" in metres, rounded to two decimal places).
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This is City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 2018 Engineering Question 18. It is one of the objective questions from the 2018 City Guilds Model Questions Vol1 Engineering examination.
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