Four rods of side length have been hinged to form a rhombus. Vertex is fixed to a rigid support, vertex is being moved aling the -axis with constant velocity as shown in Figure. The rate at which vertex is nearing the -axis at the moment the rhombus is in the form of a square is
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Four rods of side length have been hinged to form a rhombus. Vertex is fixed to a rigid support, vertex is being moved aling the -axis with constant velocity as shown in Figure. The rate at which vertex is nearing the -axis at the moment the rhombus is in the form of a square is
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Let the velocity compounds of point alongh and directions are and . As length of the rod is constant, along the length of the rod, velocity of each point must be the same (rigid body constraint)
Along rod ,
Along rod ,