🎬Parallelogram Diagonals Orthogonality Demo

The animated demo powerfully visualizes the fundamental principle that the diagonals of a parallelogram, represented by v+wv+w and vβˆ’wv-w, are orthogonal if and only if the adjacent sides, vv and ww, have equal magnitudes. The core takeaway is the direct correlation between the displayed metrics: the moment the magnitude of the dynamic vector βˆ₯wβˆ₯\|w\| crosses the fixed magnitude of βˆ₯vβˆ₯\|v\|, the dot product (v+w)β‹…(vβˆ’w)(v+w) \cdot(v-w) instantly zeroes out, visually triggering the red highlight and confirming the diagonals' perpendicular intersection (90 degrees). This demonstrates that the geometric configuration required for orthogonal diagonals is the rhombus-the only parallelogram where all four sides are equal in length.

🎬Narrated Video

πŸ§„A parallelogram is a rhombus (has equal sides) if and only if its diagonals are perpendicularchevron-right

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