Surveying - Engineering

Q1:

While viewing through a level telescope and moving the eye slightly, a relative movement occurs between the image of the levelling staff and the cross hairs. The instrument is

A correctly focussed

B not correctly focussed

C said to have parallax

D free from parallax.

ANS:C - said to have parallax

Parallax is a displacement or difference in the apparent position of an object viewed along two different lines of sight and it is measured by the angle or semi-angle of inclination between those two lines.