ad exercise 10.2 I understood that the description of the setup for the bowl on the turntable was not clear from the description. Hence, I added a sketch to the problem rather than asking you to figure out what I have in mind: The bowl is placed on the turntable and rotating with a given frequency \Omega. The purpose of the exercise is to discuss the motion of the ball -- and given that we disregard effects due to friction and the rolling of the ball this is a point particle moving in a potential well giving rise to a specified force pointing into the direction of the rotation axis. I hope this helps to clarify what I have in mind.