REFERENCES
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The simplest view of a rigid, undriven cylinder rolling on a rigid surface is that the friction is static. I am reluctant to describe that as rolling friction. Usually rolling friction is dissipative, while static friction is not.
2.
R.W. Chabay and B.A. Sherwood, Matter & Interactions (Wiley, New York, 2002). Happily, this particular textbook also answers some of Swartz's desires for more details of specific heats of real materials and the microscopic details of friction.
3.
J.D. Cutnell and K.W. Johnson, Physics, 4th ed. (Wiley, New York, 1998).
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