why does water  in the sink flow a different direction in england than in australia?
486174
You are assuming that the water does flow in different directions when it actually doesn't.
196749
no, it's because of the rotation of the earth.  Clocks in the southern hemisphere go around the other direction, like your toilet ;-).\n\nIt's because the shadow on a sun dial in England goes around that direction.
25693
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.
193750
This is due to the seawater having a greater heat capacity than the land, thus they heat and cool off at different rates, causing pressure differentials in the air above them. See the source for details.
305100
That would be "counter-clockwise" not "anti-clockwise". Motor sports in Australia are generally run with the drivers turning right on ovals, so that's probably what you saw, unless you are referring to a road course.
54396
because people in europe have small apendages(if ya know what i mean) no actually idk i think it has something to do with their water systems
24112
The short answer is that toilets flush to the shape of the toilet - not because of northern or southern hemisphere location\n\nThe longer answer is that in theory it is possible that the "Coriolis effect" will change the the rotation of the flush. The Wikipedia link below has a detailed analysis. It can be abbreviated to "it's possible in an exact, scientific, controlled environment"
1073455
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.
209548
The bit of knowledge I do have would suggest it should go straight down, but as never been to the equator have no proof.\n\nThese are some comments I have found:\nIt is scientifically proven it will go directly down without spinning unless you are just a bit over to one side of the equator.\n\nThe way your toilet flushes is completely random.\n\nMichigan University teamed up with Victoria University (In Wellington) to test it. They got a really big tank, drilled a hole in it, filled it up and watched the way the water spun as it drained. It was a fifty-fifty split in both places.\n\nMy science teacher went to the equator and did it and it said it went straight down when PERFECTLY on thr equator.
668041
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.
261598
They restrict the width of where the water can go. The narrower the area, the faster the flow.
161441
As the water starts to circle, it is thrown to the outside, due to centrifugal force (to be more accurate, the force that it experiences is centripetal force=(mv^2)/r since centrifugal force is a so-called fictitious force). As it's thrown outside, it starts to move faster (when things move in a circle, the things that are nearer the outside move faster than things near the center; you can see this if you have a "old-fashioned" record player by putting two coins on it, one near the center and one near the outer edge and trace how long it takes them to complete the lengths of their paths). So the circling water near the outer rim is moving very fast and experiences bigger forces (since the force is proportional to velocity). But the water near the middle is moving slower because it's being dragged along the bottom and so ends up slowing down much more. Since the water near the bottom is moving so slowly, it exhibits a much lower centrifugal force and so there is little to no centrifugal force near the bottom (or middle). This is why you have a whirlpool (vortex): the water near the top is pushed out more (since there's higher centrifugal force there) and the water near the bottom is hardly pushed outward at all (since there's lower centrifugal force near the bottom to push it out).
450924
Even when using the UK Imperial system the US can't get gallons right!
110991
The water comes from a point elevated far above the sink height (a reservoir in upstate NY).\n\nBecause its source is higher, the water will flow (downward)--even though the pipes might go 'up' a buiding. Its all about the conservation of energy laws you can learn about in physics.\n\nFrom the reservoir it is piped to the city, and it gets filtered and treated before it gets to the sink.\n\nThe sink valves hold it back until you open them, and let the force of the flow down your drain, where it goes out to the river.
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It is downhill from start to mouth using sea level. However, there are rivers that do flow uphill at times. The continental divide is the reason for it. All water flows Easterly East of the continental divide. All water will flow Westerly West of the continental divide. I've been there and seen it, weird. \n\nAnother explanation would be the rotation of the earth. The water would be "pulled" toward the equator, where the largest mass of the earth's body would be.
269002
A cyclone happens south of the equator and goes in the exact opposite direction as a hurricane . The principle works the sme as if you flush a toilet ... in Australia the water goes in the opposite direction . So therefore do the winds of a cyclone as opposed to a hurricane .\n\nThere is a word for this , I forget what it is called ...
806436
For the same reason that water goes down the plug hole in a vortex.  Air goes from high pressure to low pressure, but it goes round areas of low pressure in ever decreasing circles.