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Free-body diagram of the massless rod model: schemes of the massless elastic rod (a) and the lumped mass (b). Regularization of the solution obtained with this simplified model is achieved through the introduction of the viscous coefficient c owing to air drag and the finite stiffness kc of the clamp. (Online version in colour.)
