Does water move counter clockwise in australian toilets?
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clockwise it doesnt go counter like so many people think if you know the laws of the coriolis effect you would know that the water below the equator flows counter clockwise however the water in the toilet is not large enough to be considered for the coriolis effect...sooo clockwise
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down at the center, but it is skewed toward the left. when u bring it out for peeing, u do it from the left.
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synchronized toilet flushing
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I don't go to track races but of the few I've ssen on TV they always seem to be run anti-clockwise.  I'm thinking of things such as the Grand National and Derby horse races that are held in the UK.\n\nIf you're referring to track races in the form of athletics then again, I'd say they're run anti-clockwise - all the ones I've taken part in (going back to chool sports days) and have seen in the Olympics etc go anti-clockwise.\n\nI'm not sure why this should be but you've got a point there.
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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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The Corolis effect will have no influence on a thing as small as a sink. The direction the water turns depends whether the water has a slight circular motion already due to filling. It also depends on the shape and direction of the drain.\nI live near the equator and I can assure you the water does not go straight down.
618190
Hmm...I'm not sure, but I think it has something to do with wiping backwards.\nA gross question, but still interesting.
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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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Large scale flows depend on the Coriolis effect, which make the motion turn differently in each hemisphere. Therefore cyclones, hurricanes (though they are rare in southern hemisphere) and such events turn clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. As the spatial scale diminishes, the Coriolis effect loses importance. For tornadoes, for instance, it is still sufficient to make 98% of them to turn clockwise in the southern hemisphere and counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere. But, in 2% of the cases they turn differently.\nDust devils are small enough so that they can turn either way, independently of hemisphere.\nOf course, the water flowing down your sink is a very small-scale process. Coriolis effect makes no difference in that case.\nTherefore, it can go either way, both in Australia and in North America, depending only on the sink geometry.
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From SPACE.COM:\n\nBack home, all of this has almost nothing to do with your bathtub drain, which creates another spiral shape.\n\nThere is a popular myth, though, owing to the rotational direction of a hurricane, that says the water in bathtubs rotates a certain direction in the Northern Hemisphere.\n\nIt's not true.\n\nThe Coriolis effect does not determine which way the water swirls in your house. The effect is too tiny to impact such a minor, localized process, all experts agree.\n\nThat means water is free to swirl in either direction in tubs in both hemispheres. Which way it goes is determined by the geometry of a particular basin or, if things are perfectly aligned and balanced, then by chance.
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You may be referring to the Coriolis Effect, which governs the rotation of very large fluids (like weather systems on earth), due to differential forces caused by the rotation of the Earth.  In a relatively small object like a pipe (or yes, even a toilet) the direction of rotation is either random or determined by the geometry of the object.
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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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No, you've got it backwards, it flushes counter-clockwiswe above the equator, and clockwise below. Right on the equator should flush counter-clockwise as well.
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clockwise; am in US\ncounter in Ausralia
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Think of a small "U" shaped tube. Do you agree that if you pour water through either opening, the water level on either sides will be the same?\nThe "commode" is one of the sides of that "U" shape tube, the other side is inside the toilet. At a certain height (aproximately at 30% the height of the commode) this other side twists down and connects to the drain pipe of the toilet.\nSo the "U" actually would look like an inverted capital "N"\n\nWhen you flush the toilet, water goes into the commode. Since there is more water in the commode than in the inside of the toilet, water will move into the toilet, and down the drain pipe. It will continue to do so, until the water is at 30% of the height of the commode on either side of the "U".\n\nPercentages are just approximations. Hope this helps.
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clockwise is an English custom.\n\nUS and Canada run on a counter-clockwise track.\n\n\n\nFirst Run Counter-Clockwise in 1921\n\nGrey Lag's 1921 Belmont was the first running of this prestigious classic to be run in the counter-clockwise custom of American racing. Previous editions of the Belmont Stakes were run clockwise in accordance with the English custom.
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Due to the effect, cyclones rotate counter-clockwise 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 sinks and toilets - see the toilets/bathtubs section below.