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<blockquote data-quote="E46Fanatic" data-source="post: 75495" data-attributes="member: 81"><p>Man, you are definitely not a physics grad lol. BUT you can fool your way through with BS tho <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite7" alt=":p" title="Stick Out Tongue :p" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":p" /> . Don't you know that the coriolis effect with regards to swirling water clockwise and anti clockwise in different hemispheres is nothing more than an urban legend?</p><p></p><p>As for the coriolis effect on our cars, its one tenth millionth acceleration of gravity... very insignifcant in comparisons to wind gusts, and other environmentals.</p><p></p><p></p><p>----------</p><p></p><p>--Finally, Thomas Humphrey, a senior scientist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, discusses in more detail the reasons why we do not see the Coriolis effect at work in the bathroom: </p><p></p><p>"There is an African country near the equator where entrepreneurs have set up two toilets, one just north of the equator, the other just south of it. For a fee, they will allegedly demonstrate that the toilets flush in opposite directions. It is only for show, however; there is no real effect. Yes, there is such a thing as the Coriolis effect, but it is not enough to dominate the flushing of a toilet--and the effect is weakest at the equator. </p><p> </p><p>"The telling comparison is between the magnitude of the Coriolis effect and the initial amount of angular momentum in the water--that is, how much is it spinning anyway, regardless of the earth's rotation. Coriolis acceleration at mid-latitudes is about one ten-millionth the acceleration of gravity. Because it is a very small acceleration, it needs a very long distance for it to produce an appreciable curvature--and hence directionality--to the motion. A toilet or sink is just not large enough. The Coriolis effect influences because wind velocities may be hundreds of times greater than the motions in a sink and because the distances involved are far larger than the tiny draining diameter in a sink or toilet. </p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=00069EE7-6D24-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7&pageNumber=2&catID=3" target="_blank">Get the facts</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="E46Fanatic, post: 75495, member: 81"] Man, you are definitely not a physics grad lol. BUT you can fool your way through with BS tho :P . Don't you know that the coriolis effect with regards to swirling water clockwise and anti clockwise in different hemispheres is nothing more than an urban legend? As for the coriolis effect on our cars, its one tenth millionth acceleration of gravity... very insignifcant in comparisons to wind gusts, and other environmentals. ---------- --Finally, Thomas Humphrey, a senior scientist at the San Francisco Exploratorium, discusses in more detail the reasons why we do not see the Coriolis effect at work in the bathroom: "There is an African country near the equator where entrepreneurs have set up two toilets, one just north of the equator, the other just south of it. For a fee, they will allegedly demonstrate that the toilets flush in opposite directions. It is only for show, however; there is no real effect. Yes, there is such a thing as the Coriolis effect, but it is not enough to dominate the flushing of a toilet--and the effect is weakest at the equator. "The telling comparison is between the magnitude of the Coriolis effect and the initial amount of angular momentum in the water--that is, how much is it spinning anyway, regardless of the earth's rotation. Coriolis acceleration at mid-latitudes is about one ten-millionth the acceleration of gravity. Because it is a very small acceleration, it needs a very long distance for it to produce an appreciable curvature--and hence directionality--to the motion. A toilet or sink is just not large enough. The Coriolis effect influences because wind velocities may be hundreds of times greater than the motions in a sink and because the distances involved are far larger than the tiny draining diameter in a sink or toilet. [url=http://www.sciam.com/askexpert_question.cfm?articleID=00069EE7-6D24-1C71-9EB7809EC588F2D7&pageNumber=2&catID=3]Get the facts[/url] [/QUOTE]
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