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Why is it assumed that angular acceleration is 0 when a ball is midair after rolling off a surface with constant velocity?

Urb
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Deen Qureshi
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Forces acting on each point of the sphere (or any object) due to gravity are the same everywhere when the object is in free fall. Therefore, the net external torque is $0$

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