Write for the imposed constant angular velocity. In inertial polar coordinates, the bead has . Its constrained Lagrangian is
The reduced Lagrangian has no explicit time dependence, so its Lagrangian energy function is conserved:
This is the Jacobi integral , since the bead's actual inertial energy and axial angular momentum are
The motor maintaining the stick's angular velocity supplies torque and does work. Indeed , generally nonzero. A time-independent reduced Lagrangian therefore need not imply conservation of the bead's inertial kinetic energy when its imposed constraint is moving.