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Chapter 10, Problem 53P
The cellular motor driving the flagellum in E. coli (see Problem 47) exerts a typical torque of 400 pN·nm on the flagellum. If this torque results from a force applied tangentially to the outside of the 12-nm-radius flagellum, what's the magnitude of that force?
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