A Folded Tetrahedron's Fixed Sphere

Problem

In a planar quadrilateral ABCDABCD, AB⊥ADAB\perp AD, ∠ADC=4∠ACD=120∘\angle ADC=4\angle ACD=120^\circ, CD=2CD=2, and the area of △ABC\triangle ABC is 333\sqrt 3. The triangle ABDABD is folded along BDBD to a triangle PBDPBD, where PP is a moving point.

1. Prove that the volume of the circumscribed sphere of the tetrahedron P-BCDP\text{-}BCD is a constant. 2. When the distance from CC to the plane PBDPBD is 263\dfrac{2\sqrt 6}3, find the cosine of the angle between the lines PBPB and CDCD.

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Difficulty8/10
TopicsLaw of Sines, Law of Cosines, solid geometry

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