Surveying Practice Problems

Book Description

Surveying Practice Problems provides 105 multiple-choice surveying problems to assist civil engineers and land surveyors in preparation for their professional licensing examinations. Topics include: Horizontal Curves, Vertical Curves, Distance, Leveling, Area, Angles, Traverse, and Photogrammetry. This book is divided into 3 Sections: Questions, Detailed Solutions, and Quick Solutions. The Detailed Solutions Section is the largest section, where problems are solved using equations, figures, tables and notes. The Quick Solutions Section only provides the multiple-choice letter corresponding to the correct answer, so readers can quickly check their answers.

Surveying Practice Problems contains only problems and solutions. This book does not teach the subject of surveying from scratch. This book is ideal for those who are already familiar with the subject of engineering surveying and could benefit from more example problems.

Customer Reviews

Couldn't be much better!! For about $17. Extremely well-structured problem sets by topic, with solid, beautifully clear, graphic detailed solutions to each problem. His logic is just clear as a bell and not many print errors throughout the book. Remember Admiral Nelson, the great naval hero of England? Tim Nelson must be related!!

Reference book or some prior knowledge of subject needed, although you can solve several initial problems with common sense. You could cheat and first go straight to his excellent solutions, but it is a lot better to tackle each problem before peeking at the solutions.

The best approach is to have a good book at your side, like Cuomo's paperback, to get oriented to the subject; but, even Cuomo does not clearly define all terms as he should and I got in a rut doing only his book. I needed another fresh perspective.

I recommend that you solve Nelson's problem sets with a surveying textbook alongside that completely defines, describes and explains each topic.

You can bull your way through several problems via geometry, without much prior knowledge of surveying, but will eventually hit the wall without basic surveying techniques. I solved a bunch of his problems on my own and then read how he solved them.

Nelson provides a refreshing complement to Cuomo's fairly well-written book that contains a more limited set of problems.

It is such a joy to have found Nelson's book. I wish he wrote ALL the books on CE, seismic and surveying!! Then I'll bet that I'd pass that California PE exam for sure!!