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JPG wrote:
Yeah! Right! Not!

I buy Rjent's explanation.

Since whirlpools rotate reversed in the southern hemisphere, do clocks also?

They probably would if they had been invented there ....

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

Only extremely large things are effected. Just so you know the drain things are fake....

Ed

reible wrote:https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coriolis_force

Only extremely large things are effected. Just so you know the drain things are fake....

Ed

Here's a related question, asked by my 7th-grade science teacher.

Does the Earth rotate clockwise, or counterclockwise?

The teacher didn't much like my answer, because it wasn't "textbook".

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Here's a related question, asked by my 7th-grade science teacher.

Does the Earth rotate clockwise, or counterclockwise?

The teacher didn't much like my answer, because it wasn't "textbook".

Clockwise viewed from the south pole. Counter clockwise viewed from the north pole.

To the right viewed from the equator.


What was your answer?

JPG wrote:

BuckeyeDennis wrote:Here's a related question, asked by my 7th-grade science teacher.

Does the Earth rotate clockwise, or counterclockwise?

The teacher didn't much like my answer, because it wasn't "textbook".

Clockwise viewed from the south pole. Counter clockwise viewed from the north pole.

To the right viewed from the equator.


What was your answer?

I asked "Viewed from which pole?" He said it didn't matter. I attempted to demonstrate that it did, by rotating a pencil that represented the Earth. He accused me of reversing rotational direction during viewpoint change. It took me about 5 minutes to show him the light.

The textbook said "counterclockwise", period.

If clocks ran counter-clockwise, they wouldn't be clocks. They would be counter-clocks.

Some of you may want to clock me for posting this in the first place.














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