does a flush turn in different directions north and south of the equater?
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No, the Coriolis force can have an effect on other things, but not water rotating in a toilet
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They're vectors, so take into account the direction. Thankfully, they're all in the same dimension, so you can make north positive and south negative (or vice versa, if you prefer), then add. -1 + 3 - 6 + 2 = -2, that is, 2 km south.\nIf they were in different directions, you'd do the same thing, adding horizontal and vertical separately, then using the Pythagorean theorem to find the resultant vector.
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Counterclockwise to both questions.
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the water in my toilet flushes clockwise.. and I live smack dab in the middle of the USofA.  well, sort of.
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No!  Yet more bad science frequently stated in classrooms around the world.  Students in science classes are often told that the coriolis effect causes water spiral out the toilet and drains in opposite directions in different hemespheres.  This is not true.\n\nCyclones (tornadoes, hurricanes, typhoons, etc) DO spiral in opposite directions in the two hemespheres as a result of the coriolis effect, counter-clockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere.
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This question has been adequately answered, but it is a trick question in that every direction at the north pole is south (you can't walk east, west, or north of the north pole), and every direction at the south pole is north. You could, however take one step south, turn and walk east, but you would have to walk in a little circle to maintain your easterly direction. Weird, huh?
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Isnt it the other way round??
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Well it depends on your frame of reference... it spins from west to east so if you were looking down on the earth from above the north pole then it's anti-clockwise. If you look from south pole, it's clockwise.
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The same reason toilets flush in counterclockwise rotation in the southern hemisphere, the rotation of the earth.
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longitude runs north and south\n\nladitude runs east west\n\nlongituse the lines are longer because the stretch pole to polo\n\nlongitude=long lines
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North, East, West, South
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Water will spin in water ever way it is induced to spin.\nThe coriolis is effect is real, but it is extreamly weak and does not play a role in the way that water will flow down a drain or out of a toilet.  Water will spin whatever was it is induced to by the toilet nozzles pushing it.\nIt is not true that all toilets in the norther hemisphere spin one way and toilets in the southern hemisphere spin the other direction.
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Down. Clockwise or anti-clockwise rotation is very much dependent on the first impulse when you open the drain, with coriolis force a distant second.
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The Coriolis Effect (though the flushing toilet is not a good example as engineering of the toilet could make the water rotate either way)
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Episodes of the Simpsons and urban legend have it that the spin of flushed water is determined by the hemisphere one is in, presumably because cyclones, hurriances, and other large-scale forces of nature spin in opposite directions in opposite hemispheres.\n\nUnfortunately the force that makes hurricanes and cyclones spin in opposite directions (the Coriolis force) operates on a very large scale, over thousands of miles in fact. The forces that determine whether the toilet flushes clockwise or counter-clockwise are a function of the toilet, no more, no less. The Coriolis force does not operate on such small scales as the whole manifestation of its effect is seen due to the difference in rotation between two points on Earth that are far apart.\n\nSo the answer to your question is "Depends on the toilet", nothing else.
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Contrary to legend, it depends on the sink - not the hemisphere. The Coriolis force (which makes large scale currents and weather patterns turn clockwise in the Northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the Southern hemisphere) is really too small to matter in a sink/toilet. The geometry of the sink and the motion of the water before you pull the plug plays a much larger role.
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NO!  Normally yes, but right up near the MAGNETIC north OR the magnetic South, it varies.\n\nIf you are between the true north and the magnetic North, the end of the other needle can spin or point to the true North.