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Fig. 17.

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Mean pitch angle as a function of spiral strength, measured from tangential-to-radial forces (Eq. (6)). The colour palette and symbols are the same as in Fig. 14. The red dashed line represents the linear fit to the data cloud, while the green and black lines show the fit for flocculent and grand-design+multi-armed galaxies, respectively.

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