 | John Bonnycastle - Trigonometry - 1806 - 464 pages
...1 7 miles, and bearing of c from B NE 122° 49'. 31. Wanting to know my distance from an object o, on the other side of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, I took two stations A, B, 5OO yards asunder, and then measured AC, BD, each 10O yards,... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1811 - 442 pages
...mill ? Ans. 959-5866 yards. EXAM. xxiv. Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river ; and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances ; from each of two stations, A and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1812 - 620 pages
...mill ? Ans. 959-5866 yards. EXAM. xxiv. Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river; and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances; from each of two stations, A and B,... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1821 - 594 pages
...and mill? Ans. 962.5866 yards. Ex. 12.* Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances ; from each of two stations, A and... | |
 | Charles Hutton - Mathematics - 1822 - 616 pages
...mill ? Ans. 959-58U6 yards. EXAM. xxiv. Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river ; and having no instrument for taking angles, but only u chain or chord for measuring distances ; from each of two station*, A and... | |
 | Robert Gibson - Surveying - 1832 - 290 pages
...and mill ? Ans. 962.5866 yards. Ex. 12.* Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0 on the other side of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances ; from each of two stations, A and... | |
 | James Hann - Plane trigonometry - 1854 - 140 pages
...Height 57'26 ft, distance 150-50 ft. (11) Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances, from each of two stations, A and Б,... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Trigonometry - 1859 - 218 pages
...Height 245.51 feet, distance 292.59 feet. Prob. 14. Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object, P, on the other side of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, but a chain for measuring distances, from each of two stations, A and B, which were... | |
 | Elias Loomis - Logarithms - 1859 - 372 pages
...Height 245.51 feet, distance 292.59 feet. Prob. 14. Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object, P, on the other side .of a river, and having no instrument for taking angles, but a chain for measuring distances, from each of two stations, A and B, which were... | |
 | Alfred Wrigley - Mathematics - 1862 - 330 pages
...94° 13', DAB = 62° 20', DBA = 84° 58', and CBA=4i° 16'. Find the distance between C and D. 23. Wanting to know my distance from an object P on the...distances from B and A to be respectively, CB = 500 and AD = 650 yards. Find PA and PB. 24. A lighthouse was observed from a ship to bear N. 34° E., and after... | |
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Wanting to know my distance from an inaccessible object 0, on the other side of a river; and having no instrument for taking angles, but only a chain or cord for measuring distances; from each of two stations, A and B, which were taken at 500 yards asunder,... 