2007-06-05 06:39:15 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
it doesnt necesarily has to be shaped like a rhombus, it can be shaped like anything that is just hte easiest way to make them, i onse made a kite that looked like the face of a devil with horns and it still flew. there are kites that are box shaped yes in 3D.
2007-06-05 06:44:17 · answer #1 · answered by enano 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A truly rhombus shaped kite will not even be stable, and will need a tail to even fly. Most common kites are shaped in what is referred to as -- you guesed it -- a kite shape. This is a geometric figure with two sets of equal sides which are NOT parallel, but are consecutive : short - short - long - long.
This shape has the special property that its diagonals are different lengths, but are perpendicular bisectors of each other. (The only other two figures this is true for are the rhombus and the square).
This shape is ideal for a small surface, since the lift is concentrated on the longest sides, making the kite easier to launch, and control while in the air.
But a kite just needs a surface for the air to act against, with the string holding it against this air pressure in the air, and the edges making the air flow faster over the back than the front, causing a lift due to differing pressures. This surface need not be any special shape, accounting for the many beautiful Oriental kites in every shape imaginable. Some of these are dozens of feet long, but can be flown like a dragon in the sky.
2007-06-05 16:19:01 · answer #2 · answered by Don E Knows 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm going to have to take exception to your initial unstated premise.
The classic kite shape is not a rhombus. Neither is it a rectangle, square, parallelogram or trapezoid. In all of those shapes there is at least one pair of opposite sides that are parallel. No two sides of a kite are parallel, so a kite is just a plain old generic quadrilateral.
2007-06-05 13:44:27 · answer #3 · answered by ryanker1 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Its shape maximises use of any updraft in the defined area of the Kite.
2007-06-05 13:43:11 · answer #4 · answered by Chaotic Melody 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Does not need to be so. In Japan they make them every shape.
2007-06-05 14:19:41 · answer #5 · answered by JOHNNIE B 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dang! I always wondered what a rhombus was, now I know.. Thanks.
2007-06-05 13:42:40 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
because they are just a like
2007-06-05 13:51:15 · answer #7 · answered by kisha m 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋