Toilet flush theory? ?

Question

dont people say tht the toilet flush goes a different direction depending where u r or something?? can sum1 explain that if its true...?

Answer 1

This called the coriolis effect. It is commonly believed that North of the equator water spins clockwise when it forms a vortex going down the drain and counter-clockwise when you are south of the equator. This has been disproven, Toilet flushing can also be effected by the shape of the bowl or the angle at which the water is introduced to the toilet bowl and can overwhelm the coriolis effect as it is relatively weak.

This from the article linked below:

Some sources that incorrectly attribute draining direction to the Coriolis force also get the direction wrong. If the Coriolis force were the dominant factor, drain vortices would spin counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere and clockwise in the southern.

In reality the Coriolis effect is a few orders of magnitude smaller than various random influences on drain direction, such as the geometry of the container and the direction in which water was initially added to it. Most toilets flush in only one direction, because the toilet water flows into the bowl at an angle.[20] If water shot into the basin from the opposite direction, the water would spin in the opposite direction.[21]

Answer 2

Well ... some people say that, but they're wrong.  They're talking about the spin of the Earth affecting the direction the water swirls around.  But the Earth spins once in 24 hours, while the water swirls around faster than once per second.   So the effect of the  Earth is like 1 part in 100,000.

Answer 3

All fluids going down a drain of any type move in a counter-clockwise direction north of the equator, they move in a clockwise direction south of the equator.