If the water spins in opposite directions either side of the equator, what happens ON the equator line? Does it go straight down without spinning!?
2006-10-20 06:06:19 · 17 answers · asked by afield23 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
I was in the Navy as a youth and tried to answer this by experimentation. When on the Equator it made no difference, it just went down the same way. Besides it always does, it is just our positions with regard to the plughole in different hemispheres that changes. When in the north we are seeing the plughole from "above", when in the south we see the plughole from "below" as we are on the "bottom" of the world. It is our orientation that changes, not the way the water goes down.
2006-10-20 06:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The coriolis effect which, supposedly controls the 'spin' of the water is much too weak to have an effect on draining water from your basin. If it spins at all it is only due to the configuration of the basin it resides in. In my bathroom basin I have noticed that it normally spins clockwise, but occasionally spins counterclockwise, and rarely goes straight down.
2006-10-20 07:20:01 · answer #2 · answered by David A 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
yes it goes straight down, above the equator it goes spinning down in a clockwise motion, below the equator in the opposite direction
2006-10-20 06:24:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I stay in Michigan (the single formed like a mitten) interior of u . s . a . of america in the Northern Hemisphere. The water swirls clockwise the picture of it does in each and every of the NH. this is the rigidity of the Coriolis. I laughed at "anti clockwise". we are saying counter clockwise.
2016-12-05 01:13:52 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Urban legends and slight of hand In Kenya at side of road under Coca Cola sign, explain this one.
it always goes down anti-clockwise
2006-10-22 20:08:18 · answer #5 · answered by username 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was in Kenya, and they did the experiment right on the equator.. and right on the equator, it goes straight down.
2006-10-20 06:14:34 · answer #6 · answered by oneblondepilgrim 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You're watching the Simpsons aswel then hahah... Yeah it's a strange one that, you would think it would just go straight down...
2006-10-20 06:16:07 · answer #7 · answered by Fu Manchu 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It turns into a beautiful Pheonix and flys away into the distance.
2006-10-20 06:25:19 · answer #8 · answered by Young Man 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anti-clockwise northern hemisphere, clockwise southern.
2006-10-20 06:09:03 · answer #9 · answered by iusedtolooklikemyavatar 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
who's been watching the Simpsons eh! lol
2006-10-20 06:29:32 · answer #10 · answered by Ley 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋