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Thanks for the response. That's what i thought but something my professor told me got me thinking i had to include it in the equation for total energy.

Did some digging and found an old post "Even though no work is done by friction, it does cause energy to be transformed into rotational KE. In the ideal case, there would be no loss in mechanical energy. (Of course, in real life there is rolling friction, deformation, etc., which does...

Homework Statement This question isn't for a specific problem. Just knowledge to approach a series of problems. It concerns a problem where a uniform sphere rolls smoothly down a ramp at incline theta. There is a static frictional force on the ramp. I can go on to find acceleration I am just...