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Pacing: Pacing Is A Reasonably Easy and Quick Method of Measuring Distance in The Field

Pacing is a reasonably quick method of measuring distance in the field without sophisticated instruments. The document outlines procedures to determine an individual's pace factor and then use it to measure unknown distances by pacing. Students will conduct experiments to determine their own pace factor by walking a known 50m distance and counting steps. They will then use their factor to measure another unknown line by pacing and comparing it to a measurement with a steel tape. This allows them to familiarize themselves with pacing and determine precision compared to precision instruments.

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Pacing: Pacing Is A Reasonably Easy and Quick Method of Measuring Distance in The Field

Pacing is a reasonably quick method of measuring distance in the field without sophisticated instruments. The document outlines procedures to determine an individual's pace factor and then use it to measure unknown distances by pacing. Students will conduct experiments to determine their own pace factor by walking a known 50m distance and counting steps. They will then use their factor to measure another unknown line by pacing and comparing it to a measurement with a steel tape. This allows them to familiarize themselves with pacing and determine precision compared to precision instruments.

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Fundamentals of Surveying Week 3

Instructor: Engr. Eric E. Floresca


SY 2021-22, 1st Sem

Pacing

Introduction
Pacing is a reasonably easy and quick method of measuring distance in the field.
However, in the presence of modern convenient instruments used in large-scale measurements
— it may be structural or field— pacing has been quite overlooked by many to be an outdated and
inaccurate method in surveying. However, pacing can still be one useful tool for a civil engineer
or surveyor, as though it may be reliant on estimates, at least the engineer will still be able
to familiarize the area and material that he will be working it, without being too obvious that he
is actually doing measurements.
Thus, pacing is one of the basic things that a beginner surveyor must know about, and every surveyor
or civil engineer must always determine and memorize his own pace factor. If no available
measuring instrument is present, or if the engineer only wishes to get a glimpse of his next
project’s area of work without catching everyone else’s eyes, pacing is the method to go. It also
saves time and energy, having to only walk normally on the length that needs to be measured,
while counting mentally.
This experiment is thus conducted to determine the pace factor of the surveying
students, as well as to use this in the computation for measuring an unknown length.

II. Objectives
1. To determine individual pace factor
2. To measure distance by pacing
III. Instrument
1. Steel tape
2. Markers
IV. Procedure
1. Determining pace factor
Fundamentals of Surveying Week 3

Instructor: Engr. Eric E. Floresca


SY 2021-22, 1st Sem

a. Select a straight and level course and on both ends establish markers at 50m
apart. Designate this point as A and B.
b. Walk over the line AB at a natural pace and count the number of paces from A to
B and then from B to A.
c. Repeat (b) to have 6 trials and tabulate the results in table 1.
d. To compute the pace factor, that is the ratio of the mean of the number of paces
to length of line AB.
Mean of the number of paces: = Total no. of paces in AB/No. of trials
Pace factor: = Mean of the no. of paces/ Line AB
Table 1: Determining Pace factor

Trial Line Tape No. of Paces Mean no. of Pace Factor


Distance paces
1 AB
2 BA
3 AB 50m
4 BA
5 AB
6 BA

2. Measuring Distance by Pacing


a. Establish the two endpoints of a line to measure. Name this point as C and D.
b. Walk over the line CD at natural pace and record the number paces and also
from C to D.
c. Repeat (b) to have 6 trials and tabulate the result in table 2.
d. Determine the mean no of paces in line CD; Mean No. of Paces CD = Total No. of
paces/ No. of trials
e. Determine the distance CD by multiplying your pace factor to the mean no. of
paces in line CD. This is the distance CD by pacing.
f. Measure the distance CD by taping.
g. Determine the relative Precision. The ratio of the difference of taped distance to
paced distance and the distance by taping. Reduce the numerator to 1.
Relative precision, RP = (taped distance-paced distance)/ tape distance.

Table 2: Measuring Distance by Pacing

Trial Line No. of Mean Paced Taped Relative


paces distance Distance Precision
1 CD
2 DC
Fundamentals of Surveying Week 3

Instructor: Engr. Eric E. Floresca


SY 2021-22, 1st Sem

3 CD
4 DC
5 CD
6 DC

V. Discussion:
(Interpret the data, what went wrong? What are the factors that can affect your pace factor?)
VI. Conclusion

V. References
 Kavanagh, Barry F., Surveying Principles and Applications (9th edition), 2014
 Ghilahi, C. D., and Wolf P. R., Elementary Surveying: An introduction to Geomatics (14th
edition), 2015.
 La Putt, J. P., Elementary Surveying (3rd edition) 2013 Reprint

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