Notes:
Here's a simple system - a bead on a semicircular wire oriented vertically (the illustration above is edge on). Because of gravity, the bead will end up at theta=0 - the bottom of the semi-circle. What happens to the bead if you spin the wire around the vertical axis at a steady rate?
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