It all depends upon how the water was introduced and the geometric structure of the drain.
http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/coriolis.html
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The coreolis effect is fake and has an effect on the behavior of small air and water volume. However, the magnitude of the effect is much too big to change the behavior water draining pee or poo into a sink or toilet. The initial force of t...
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It doesn't, always. It depends on the shape of the bowl or tub, and how the water is introduced. Just don't believe any of the nonsense you hear about it being determined by what hemisphere you're in.
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Why_does_water_go_down_the_dr...
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Water in a pan, sink, or toilet rotates counter clockwise in ... The Coriolis deflection causes cyclonic systems to rotate counterclockwise in the Northern Hemisphere and clockwise in the Southern Hemisphere. It was inevitable that someone would suggest (without checking) that a sink should drain in a similar manner.
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www.snopes.com/science/coriolis.asp
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Coriolis effect - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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In physics, the Coriolis effect is an apparent deflection of moving objects when they are viewed from a rotating reference frame. Newton's laws of motion govern the motion of an object in an inertia...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_effect
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" It all depends upon how the water was introduced and the geometric structure of the drain. One can find both counterclockwise and clockwise flowing drains in both hemispheres. Some people would like you to believe that the Coriolis force affects the flow of water down the drain in sinks, bathtubs, or toilet bowls.
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If you flush a toilet in Australia does the water drain counterclockwise or the opposite as in the northern hemisphere - trivia question /questions answer / answers ... If you flush a toilet in Australia, does the water drain counter-clockwise, or the opposite as in the northern hemisphere?
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Consider a basin filled with still water on a non-rotating planet. If we opened a smooth sided, perfectly symmetrical drain in the bottom of the basin the water would flow straight in from the sides to the location of the drain to replace that water which fell out the hole.
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In fact, there is an effect that will make water drain in a particular direction depending on the hemisphere, if all other perturbations can be minimized. This is the Coriolis effect, a "fictitious force" which ... Does water really drain counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern hemisphere?
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