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1. Bubbles
Most surveying equipment has a bubble to facilitate being correctly oriented to gravity. Two kinds of bubbles are used: bubble tube and circular bubble. Figure E-1 shows top and side view of both.
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Top View |
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Side View |
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a. Tube |
b. Circular |
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Figure E-1 |
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The axis of the bubble tube (ABT) is a line tangent to the center of the upper curved surface of the bubble, Figure E-2.
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a. Tube |
b. Circular |
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Figure E-2 |
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Technically, since a circular bubble is spherical, the ABT is actually a plane, Figure E-3, but we can refer to its edge view as the ABT.
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Figure E-3 |
