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BCM Assignment

This document contains 8 questions about basic civil and mechanical engineering topics. The questions cover defining civil engineering and its role in society, listing disciplines of civil engineering and exploring one in more depth, defining and listing types of cement, defining surveying and its objectives, stating surveying principles, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of chain surveying, converting whole circle bearings to reduced bearings and writing back bearings from fore bearings, and differentiating between prismatic compasses and surveyor's compasses as well as whole circle bearings and reduced bearings.

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BCM Assignment

This document contains 8 questions about basic civil and mechanical engineering topics. The questions cover defining civil engineering and its role in society, listing disciplines of civil engineering and exploring one in more depth, defining and listing types of cement, defining surveying and its objectives, stating surveying principles, discussing the advantages and disadvantages of chain surveying, converting whole circle bearings to reduced bearings and writing back bearings from fore bearings, and differentiating between prismatic compasses and surveyor's compasses as well as whole circle bearings and reduced bearings.

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BASIC CIVIL &MECHANICAL ENGINEERING ASSIGNMENT QUESTIONS

1. What a civil engineering? Explain the role of civil engineers for the welfare of the
society?
2. State any five disciplines of civil engineering? Explain the scope of any one discipline
3. What is cement? List various types of cement.
4. What is surveying? What are the objectives of surveying?
5. State the principles of surveying
6. What are the advantages and disadvantages of chain surveying?
7. i) Convert the following WCB to RB
(a) 66° 30’ (b) 130° 15’ (c) 205° 20’ (d) 265° 10’ (e) 295° 30’ (f) 320° 15’
ii) Write the back bearings of the following fore bearings:
(a) N 75° 30¢ E (b) N 60° 30¢ W (c) S 40° 45¢ W (d) S 55° 20¢ W
8. Differentiate the following: (a) Prismatic compass and surveyor’s compass (b) Whole
circle bearing and reduced bearing

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