2006-08-23 03:06:31 · 7 answers · asked by Tracker 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
No. This is a popular misconception based on the Coriolis effect. Go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect for a full description.
2006-08-23 03:10:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes.
In the same way that high and low pressure weather systems rotate differently in the northern and southern hemispheres.
Water going down the plughole is a low pressure system
and so rotates anti-clockwise north of the equator.
On the equator NOTHING!!
2006-08-23 10:17:02 · answer #2 · answered by anthony e 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ITS A MYTH!! supposedly due to the rotation of the earth affecting the waters inertia.
Actually it depends on the size of the plug hole, size of the tap, speed of water, and other variables, which way round it drains away.
2006-08-23 11:30:47 · answer #3 · answered by mexicanroadfuzz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
mine goes to the right, but I've never noticed if it always goes in that direction, and it depends on which side of the bath your on-as people have different placements of their bathrooms.
2006-08-23 10:13:16 · answer #4 · answered by cassiepiehoney 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Something to do with North /South Pole magnetism which way goes depends on which side of equator your on.
2006-08-23 16:20:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I have been taught it drains counter clockwise in the southsern hemisphere...
2006-08-23 10:24:45 · answer #6 · answered by Add Man 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A recent trip to Peru confirmed that this is a myth.
2006-08-23 12:45:42 · answer #7 · answered by hyperhealer3 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋