What is Earth's Coriolis Force?
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The Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of a moving object in a rotating frame of reference. There are examples of this effect in everyday life, such as the direction of rotation of cyclones. Due to the effect, cyclones rotate counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, and clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, contrary to popular opinion, it has no noticeable effect on the rotation of water in draining sinks and toilets (see the toilets/bathtubs section below). The effect is named after Gaspard-Gustave Coriolis, a French scientist, who described it in 1835, though the mathematics appeared in the tidal equations of Laplace in 1778.
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Because you live in the Southern Hemisphere...In the Northern Hemisphere it goes the other way. Look up the term 'Coriolis effect' for more info.
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Precession! The shape of Earth’s orbit becomes more or less oval (eccentricity), Earth wobbles as it spins (precession), and Earth's axis changes too (tilt). All these changes, over thousands of years, causes Earth's climate to change.
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Two Things. The Coriolis Effect, and the Bermuda High.\n  First, is The Coriolis Effect. Since the Earth spins Everything on the ground spins with it. It is easier to explain in examples. So, imagine the earth like a round cardboard circle. Start spinning the cardboard, but not too fast.. Put a ruler just above the spinning, so it doesn't actually touch the cardboard. Draw a line using the ruler as a straight edge. Notice how the "straight" line is curved. \n  Now think of a hurricane as a straight line. It starts to curve when it goes north.\n  The Bermuda High is a high pressure. The winds at the high pressure spin clockwise. When Hurricanes go north, the clockwise winds push it northeast. This also explains why some hurricanes go right along the eastern coast and curves back towards Europe.
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In approximate terms, yes.  It's called cyclostrophic flow: the pressure gradient force provides the centripetal acceleration to maintain circular motion.  (pressure gradient force balancing centrifugal force)\n\nGive or take...\n\n*************\nSide note....\n*************\nThe coriolis effect certainly dictates the *direction* of circulation (clockwise in the southern hemisphere, counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere) thus the lack of tropical cyclone formation near the equator.\n\nHowever the apparent acceleration we attribute to the 'Coriolis Force' plays an insignificant role in determining the equilibrium trajectories of air parcels near a hurricane's core.  The distances involved are simply too small (10-100km) - the distance from the surface to the earth's axis changes very little on these scales in the tropics.
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The earth turns with respect to the motion of force which was placed upon it with in the vacuum of space, and also with respect to the vacuum of space there is no friction to slow it down, therefor it shall continue to spin forever if it's motion is uninterrupted, or unaltered by another matter energy object of aether large size, or fast speed impacting it with direct respect to the angle of the interaction.\n\nas for your second question the axis is the center point at which the spin turns, and is therefore recognized by us with respect to the earths motion spin as the axis, and if the motion and direction of spin were changed tomorrow to be perpendicular of that which it is today, then the new axis would be perceived tomorrow as existing at some point at which we recognize the equator today.
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The force of gravitational attraction that the earth exerts on the moon tending to pull the moon towards its center, is exactly balanced by the centrifugal force (that tends to take the moon away from the earth) on the moon due to its (approximately) uniform circular motion.\n\nMathematically,\n\nFg   =     Fc
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my answer might be childish,but one can understand it easily\nThe gravitational force of earth acting at any point on its surface has a direction towards center of earth.Every matter on the surface is pulled towards the center of earth with this gravitational force.\ndo u know the value of this sticking force acting on every one kg of matter on earth--it is about 10N
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If you're speaking of the motion of Earth on it's axis or it's rotation about the sun, the answer is the scientific principle of Inertia, read now!\n\nThe principle of inertia is one of the fundamental laws of classical physics which are used to describe the motion of matter and how it is affected by applied forces.Inertia is the property of an object to resist changes in velocity unless acted upon by an outside force.Inertia is dependent upon the mass and shape of the object. The concept of inertia is today most commonly defined using Sir Isaac Newton's First Law of Motion, which states:\n\nEvery body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight ahead, except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed. [Cohen & Whitman 1999 translation]\n\nThe description of inertia presented by Newton's law is still considered the standard for classical physics. However, it has also been refined and expanded over time to reflect developments in understanding of relativity and quantum physics which have led to somewhat different (and more mathematical) interpretations in some of those fields.\n\nNow read more at the links below:
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The Earth's axial tilt varies between 21.5° and 24.5° with a 41,000 year periodicity (currently decreasing: 24.049 in 3300 BC, 23.443 in 1973, 23.439 in 2000), while the direction of the tilt gradually undergoes precession, moving in a slow circle over a period of about 25,800 years. However, other factors may change the axial tilt of Earth.
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towards the moon or towards the sun?\n\nand i think its centripetal force. (or however you spell it)\ngood luck.
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clockwise in the northern hemisphere, anticlockwise in the southern. this according to the coriolis force, but of course there otehr factors that might influence the direction of the water (geometry of the sink, external vibrations, you turning your finger in water....)
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The direction of draining water is no different in either of Earth's hemispheres. This is a perpetual myth that has no basis in scientific fact. This website provides a good discussion about the whole thing, plus lots of information about the Coriolis Effect itself --\nhttp://www.ems.psu.edu/~fraser/Bad/BadCoriolis.html
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The Coriolis force was discovered in 1835 by French mathematician Gaspard-Gustave de Coriolis.  He noticed that there appeared to be a deflection force on moving objects in rotating reference frames.\n\nImportantly the Coriolis "force" is termed a "pseudo-force" by physicists because it only appears in non inertial (ie accelerating) reference frames.  Coriolis is actually just the action of inertia resisting the acceleration of the rotating frame.  Other examples of pseudo forces include centrifugal force and the acceleration due to gravity.\n\n\nHope this helps!\nThe Chicken
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To get the Centripetal force(the force acting inwards to the center of the radius in this case the sun)\n\nwe use the formular angular force=mass*Acceleration\n=mass*(angular velocity^2/radius)\nsince you have already provided the nessesary requirements lets get started>\n\n=5.9742*10^24*(29.8/93,000,000 Miles)\nsince the sun is93,000,000 Miles away from the earth we use the distance from the earth to the sun as the angular radius.\n from mile to kilometers we convert to get\n93 000 000 mile = 149 668 992 000 meters \n\nnow centripetal force=5.9742*10^24*(29.8/149 668 992 000 )\n\n=1.991060379427156160709627816562e-10kg\nthat is the force that acts on the earth inwards
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it depends whether u live north or south of the equator. the culprit is called coriolis force. it is proportional to omegaXv where omega is the eaths angular momentum. since its a cross product and v is different in north and south. the direction (clockwise or anti) is thus different.
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It only depends on the local position of the toilet.\nThe coriolis force is not involved here.