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CONSIDER a simple homogeneous filament with a wave passing in the direction indicated and suppose that the filament is immersed in water (a). Allow also that the wave is passing along the filament with both an increase in velocity and amplitude and hence an increase in resistance from the water. It is then obvious, I think, that the wave must take up the form indicated (b). Thus the wave will pass along the filament with rotation in a clockwise or anticlockwise direction. Let it be assumed that the rotation is anti–clockwise.
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LOWNDES, A. Mechanics of a Flagellum. Nature 148, 198 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/148198a0
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