if you flush the toilet in australia does the water spin clockwise?

Question

here in florida the toilet went counterclockwise

Answer 1

Ideas about which way a bathtub will drain have also been cited for giving the direction water circulates when you flush a toilet. This is surely nonsense. In this case, the water rotates in the direction in which the pipe points, that carries the water from the tank to the bowl

Answer 2

it is an incorrect belief to think that toilets flush differently whether you are in the north or south.

i just flushed my toilet here in canada and it went down clockwise. the sink went down couterclockwise.

the coriolis effect if far too small to affect things like a sink or toilet. i mean see how fast that water circles down the drain? like maybe 15-20 times a minute? roughly? now compare that to the rotation rate of earth, once in 24 hours.... yeah the coriolis effect affects large things like weather patterns, but not toilets.

Answer 3

There will be a very small tendency in favour of this happening but on the scale of a toilet or a bath, other (possibly also very small) factors will probably dominate in initiating the spin direction so you will not be able to make a consistent observation.

Bramble.

Answer 4

Look at the low pressure areas in the US and Australia and they will be opposite. In the US low pressure rotates counter clockwise.

Answer 5

the water spin clockwise evetywhere in the world because of the rotation of the Earth.

Answer 6

No. Thats a myth.
The Coriolis Effect doesn't apply to toilets.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect#Draining_bathtubs_and_toilets

Answer 7

I have read somewhere that it is a myth.