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A planar four-bar linkage mechanism with 3 revolute kinematic pairs and 1 prismatic kinematic pair is shown in the figure, where AB ⊥ CE and FD ⊥ CE. The T-shaped link CDEF is constructed such that the slider B can cross the point D, and CE is sufficiently long. For the given lengths as shown, the mechanism is
The Kutzbach criterion for determining the number of degrees of freedom (n) is (where $$l$$ = number of links, j = number of joints and h = number of higher pairs)