how do you use a transient for elevations in construction?

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how do you use a transient for elevations in construction?

Answer 1

Websters dictionary says a transit is an instrument used by surveyors to determine angles. It also measures the up and down layout of the ground called topography. I believe you need 2 people, one to move a measuring stick and the other one reads the transit. Surveyors put the transit in a fixed or assigned spot. He looks through a little telescope that has a movable measure on the side called a compass (Maybe you will remember a similar tool from school called a protractor). The protractor measures distances and makes circles. The compass on the side of transit measures angles. By looking and recording the different angles and degrees on the transit compass compared to the assigned mark on the measuring stick the surveyor records the surface of the ground. In this way the surveyor provides information to the contract engineer. The measurements are used in algebra formulas to determine how much additional dirt is needed to make to site level or if the ground needs to be scrapped off to make it level. or the info could be used to determine if the site possibly will flood. I hope this is the info you are looking for. An encyclopedia or science book can probably do a better job of describing the process than I have. I hope you get a lot more responses.