Does the eath rotate around counter clockwise?
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Depends on your point of view. If you're hovering above the North pole, the earth rotates counter-clockwise. If you're hovering above the South pole, it rotates clockwise.
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Because if it went counterclockwise time would be going in reverse? :)
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It depends on the toilet, not the hemisphere.\n\nYou are thinking of something called "the coriolis effect".  This is the effect which causes water to try to spin clockwise in the southern hemisphere and clounter-close wise in the northern hemisphere.  Although this effect is real, it has a negligible effect in everyday life, like in the draining of toilets.  Compared to other factors, the coriolis effect is extrememly weak and for all intensive purposes, does not influence the effect of water draining out of a toilet.
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Some will say the Coriolis force (one of the fictitious forces that we observe because we live in a noninertial rotating frame), and predict that it will swirl clockwise in the southern hemisphere. However, these forces are overcome by all kinds of other geometric effects and residual motion etc. \n\nFor example, fill a sink with a few inches of water, and swirl it with your hand, either clockwise or anticlockwise. Wait for a few minutes until you are sure that the water is still. Then carefully drop in a drop or two of food coloring and watch. The water will remain in motion for hours from your stirring. When you remove the stopper, you can create a bias towards an anticlockwise or clockwise drain vortex. The shape of the drain can also influence the direction of this fluid motion. \n\nThe flushing of a toilet is a very vigorous event, and so it will have a large effect on the direction of fluid motion, along with many other factors.
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Supposedly pressing ctrl + alt + one of the arrow keys will rotate your screen like that. It doesn't work for me, but it's worth a shot.
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do you have to twirl your a.ss a different direction in aussieland when you're dancing?
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In the Northern Hemisphere, a tornado or twister twists counter-clockwise. In the Southern Hemisphere is clockwise. This is due to the Coriolis effect, caused when objects (in this case air) moves over the rotating earth. The air flows towards the twister, but curves to right (relative to the direction it is flowing). It is easier to visualize if you think about some air flowing straight north to a twister. Since the earth's surface is moving faster towards the east where it started, it carry on some of the momentum and curve to the east (right of the northerly direction it was flowing). This will tend to cause the air to miss the twister, but he extreme low pressure will allow the higher pressure around it to bend the flow towards the funnel, but the air will have the angular momentum of moving the right as it moves in, thus creating the counter-clockwise twist. In the Southern Hemisphere, a flow from the south towards a twister will be coming from a place closer to the earth's axis, and thus will be moving East more slowly than the land under the twister, so it fall behind (to the West) as it approaches, resulting, through the similar process as described above, in a clockwise twist.
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Look at how a bug does it.\nThe side opposite the direction you wish to turn takes steps slightly longer than the side toward the turn.\nFor very quick turning, the legs take strides in opposite directions.
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It's due to the rotation of the Earth - specifically the Coriolis Effect. See http://answers.yahoo.com/search/search_result?p=Coriolis+Effect\n\nMy answer assumes you have a circular toilet which drains right down the middle and recieves no directional impulse from the water flowing in ;-). ie. Under strict controlled conditions, you can make water spin in opposite directions as it drains through a hole.
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Turn it any number of degrees!\nMaybe you mean only 0 or 360 degrees, because the 'T' or 't' has no rotation symmetry.
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It's the circle of the universe. counter clockwise motion. and number seven is a special number to God. \n\n-in the solar system planets go counter clockwise motion around the sun. http://www.calcuttahams.com/images/Solar_System.jpg\n-electronics moves around its nucleus in counter clockwise movement.\n-the way we go around the Kaaba (black house). is the same way of how electronics and planets moves around its nucleus. \n-also Tornado and Hurricans moves in the same direction when it starts as counter clockwise motion. \n\nthis movement motion has to do with life circle. and it's commanded by God to do it like this.
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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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90deg clockwise\n\na face\n\nooooh
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In the northern hemisphere the toilet bowl water circulates counterclockwise, and in the southern hemisphere it circulates clockwise.\nThe water in the toilet moves in the same manner as the air in a hurricane or tornado. The effect causing the rotation is the Coriolis effect, and is not a force, although it is sometimes referred to as a force.\n\nConsider the situation in the northern hemisphere.\n\nLiquids or gases nearer the equator are traveling faster as the earth turns than the liquids and gases nearer the poles, because everything nearer the equator must travel a longer linear distance each day to make the 360 degree rotation from west to east. If liquid/gas nearer the equator must head toward a target (low pressure) in the direction of the poles, it finds that the target is not traveling as fast west to east as it (liquid/gas) is traveling, and if it stays on its direct polar-bound route it will overshoot the target to the east (right on a map). To hit the target the liquid/gas must correct its flight and turn west (left) as it travels poleward. Such corrective action creates a curved path of travel which leads to circular flow. Liquid/gas poleward of the target (low pressure) is traveling west to east slower than the target (the diameter of the earth measured perpendicular to the earth rotation axis decreases as one moves toward the poles), and in its travel towards the equator, will undershoot the target to the west(the target moved faster). To reach the target from the pole side the liquid/gas must turn to the east in a curved path, and this leads to circular flow in the same counterclockwise direction as the liquid/gas coming from the other side of the target (low pressure).\n\nIn the southern hemisphere the case is the same, but because poleward bound and turning west means circling clockwise, as does equator-bound and turning east.\n\nNow in a toilet bowl the target and low pressure is the drain (a sink hole), so the drain operates the same as a hurricane. Ditto for the tornado.
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Not only is the Earth's rotation too weak to affect the direction of water flowing in a drain, tests you can easily perform in a few washrooms will show that water whirlpools both ways depending on the sink's structure, not the hemisphere.
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electron does not orbit the nuleus. this idea was dismissed long back. in fact they spin in their place in either clockwise or anticlockwise direction. \n\noption (c) is correct