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If theres no friction how tf is the block spinning? And how would slowing down the cylinder change anything?
Lets assume that someone made the block start spinning and that the before and after the speed change are 2 separate events where the block was given the same speed as the cylinder.
Then why tf did you make the cylinder spin??? The cylinder cannot physically impart any force on the block other than the normal force which does not make the block spin. If i put the box into a frictionless spinning cylinder, it is not gonna start spinning. It will behave as if the cylinder weren't spinning at all. So why mention it? Why not just have a stationary cylinder and the block is sliding around it with no energy loss??
Also if there isnt friction the sentence "The cylinder's rotation causes the object to undergo uniform circular motion" makes no physical sense?
Someone please tell me I'm completely overlooking something