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1.961 - Lecture 8 – What’s diffusion got to do with swimming microorganisms?

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1.961 Life at low Reynolds numbers

Brownian rotational diffusion
A bacterial random walk: E. coli’s run-and-tumble swimming
Other bacterial swimming modes
Brownian constraints on swimming
The distribution of tumbling angles

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