Let the side length of the base and height of regular pyramid be equal. Point is the centroid of face . Then the sine of the angle between line and base is ______.
Solution
and , respectively. Then is the centre of the base square, lies on , and .
For the sake of convenience, let . Thus, , . And since , , we have
and thus .
The angle between line and base is equal to . Therefore, the desired sine is
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