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That makes sense. I was conceptualising it as the bead reversing direction as the wheel completed successive revolutions. Thanks for the help.

Note: All bold and underlined variables in this post are base vectors I was reading the book 'Introduction To Mechanics' by Kleppner and Kolenkow and came across an example I don't quite understand. The example is this: a bead is moving along the spoke of a wheel at constant speed u m/s. The...