Here's a crappy picture of the diagram: http://imgur.com/a/gexDf
A piston is operated by rod [AP] attached to a flywheel of radius 1 m. AP = 2m. P has coordinates of (cos t, sin t) and point A is (-x, 0)
a. Show that x = Root(4 - sin2 t) - cos t
As follows:
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