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Use the downward-positive displacement and the filament bending modulus $B$ and load density $w$ defined above. Two applications of integration by parts give the first variationThus the elastic-plus-gravitational force density is $-\delta E/\delta h=-B{h}_{xxxx}+w$. In resistive-force theory, transverse motion has drag per unit length $-{\zeta }_{\perp }{h}_t$. Neglecting filament and fluid inertia, instantaneous force balance gives the forced small-slope elastohydrodynamic filament equationClamping fixes position and tangent, while the free end has zero bending moment and zero transverse shear force. ThereforeThe last two conditions also follow as natural boundary conditions from the variation, since the free-end values of $\delta h$ and $\delta h_x$ are arbitrary. Distributed weight does not add a concentrated force or moment at the tip.

At steady state, $B{h}_s^{\prime \prime \prime \prime }=w$. Integrating first from the free end gives $h_s^{\prime \prime \prime }=(w/B)(x-L)$ and $h_s^{\prime \prime }=(w/2B)(x-L{)}^2$. Integrating twice more with the clamp conditions gives the uniform-load bending of a clamped filament:In particular the free-end displacement is $\delta =h_s(L)=w{L}^4/(8B)$ and the total buoyancy-corrected gravitational load is $F=wL$. Thus the tip stiffness of a uniformly loaded cantilever isThe last expression uses $A$ as Young's modulus; if $A$ itself is flexural rigidity, the same result reads $k_{\mathrm{eff}}=8A/L^3$. This is Hooke's law for the specified loading pattern. It is not the stiffness for a point force at the tip, which would be $3B/L^3$; replacing a distributed force by its resultant does not preserve its bending moment distribution.

For dimensional analysis, $[A]=$ force/length squared, $[I]=$ length to the fourth power, hence $[B]=$ force times length squared. Consequently $[B/L^3]=$ force/length, as required for a spring constant. Also $[{\zeta }_{\perp }]=$ force times time/length squared makes ${\zeta }_{\perp }{h}_t$, $B{h}_{xxxx}$ and $w$ all forces per unit length. Neither viscosity nor density enters the stiffness, although viscous drag controls the rate of approach to the steady shape. The small-slope approximation requires $w{L}^3/B\ll 1$, since $h_s^{\prime }(L)=w{L}^3/(6B)$.

Because increasing the length by $dL$ requires work $fdL$ on the chain, its first law of thermodynamics isAll configurations have the same energy, so at fixed $E$ and $N$,Differentiating the entropy found above givesand hence the entropic Hooke law for a one-dimensional chain isWhen $L\ll Na$, the Taylor expansion of $\mathrm{artanh}x$ giveswhich is Hooke's law. Conversely, at fixed force,The extension decreases as the temperature rises and tends to zero as $T\to \infty$: the rubber contracts on heating at fixed tension.

For a uniform-load bending of a clamped filament, total load $F=wL$ and tip displacement $\delta =w{L}^4/(8B)$ obey Hooke's law in the form $F=k_{\mathrm{eff}}\delta$, with $k_{\mathrm{eff}}=8B/L^3$. This stiffness depends on the specified distributed loading. A concentrated tip force instead gives $3B/L^3$, so equal total forces with different distributions are not interchangeable.