Pulling on a Filament

Armand Jülicher , Anthony Maggs

We propose a simple scaling argument to describe the propagation of tension along a filament suddenly pulled by one of its ends, a problem recently considered by Seifert, Wintz and Nelson (Phys. Rev. Lett. 77 (1996) 5389-5392).

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Armand Jülicher, Anthony Maggs. Pulling on a Filament. Journal de Physique I, 1997, 7 (7), pp.823-826. ⟨10.1051/jp1:1997203⟩. ⟨jpa-00247365⟩