This paper discusses experimental observations of the meandering fall of light‐weight tissue paper ribbons. The photographs show that the ribbons assume a sinusoidal shape with a unique wavelength which scales with the thickness of the airstream entrained by the ribbon.
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© 1982 American Institute of Physics.
1982
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