If water in the northern hemisphere drains clockwise, in which direction does water drain at the equator?

Question

And if water in the southern hemisphere drains counter clockwise, is there a point where there is no circular motion while water is draining?

Answer 1

The Coriolis force explanation given for decades of high school science classes is wrong. If it was right, as was believed by many, it would flow in the opposite direction in the southern hemisphere. It would be weaker as the equator was approached and would be dual lobed with opposing weak rotations at hte equator.

Why does it spin then? The pipe is a pressure sink. Fluid rotates due to a high or low pressure node like that. You can demonstrate the same thing in reverse too. As you know, a fluid in a pan will form a top surface that is equipotential with respect to gravity. In a pan that means flat according to level. (A larger body, like an ocean demonstrates the larger picture with a sperically curved surface apparent.) If you rotate the pan on a turntable of some sort (potter's wheel?), you will see a depression develop in the center. It is creating its own pressure as a response to the rotation.

Answer 2

because of the fact the earth spins on its axis the peripheral velocity decreases from the equator to the poles.The air mass with its low density and viscosity could be tormented by potential of this distinction in velocity over long distances. This finally leads to swirls and eddies that finally end up as hurricanes and cyclones, that have a clockwise or anticlockwise flow. Such issues do no longer prepare to water draining, or a creeper twining around a pole. I actually have a creeper interior the northern hemisphere with distinctive branches twining in opposite strategies.

Answer 3

Hurricanes spin opposite directions in the northern hemisphere as opposed to the southern hemisphere. there are laws of physics that explain this.
As for water spinning down a drain, I don't believe there is a difference since gravity is basically the same wherever you are on earth.

Answer 4

I'm pretty sure the whole water draining differently in different hemispheres is a myth.

Answer 5

The location on earth does not affect the direction the water spins with any significant amount of force. That is an urban legend.

http://www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp

Answer 6

Don I have no idea I have never bent a fresh bisquit on the other side of the equator but it is on my to do list.
Actually I spoke to a friend of mine from Australia and she said it does spin the other way when flushing.

Answer 7

Actually, at the equator water doesn't drain at all

Answer 8

upwards towards canada