Hello, Bob;

05 Jul 04 14:01, Bob Lawrence wrote to Robert Bull:

 BL>  Yes.. the tiny Coriolis effect starts it rotating, and it builds up
 BL> to a fury, clockwise here in the Southern Hemisphere, and backwards
 BL> where you are, upside down.

;-)

 BL> rotation reverses - north. Hurricanes and toilet bowls suffer the same
 BL> rotating force.

Although that's true in principle, I believe that water swirling out of a 
bath, for example, is so likely to be thrown off course by minor variations 
in shape of outlet and things like that that the Coriolis effect is 
swamped.

     Regards,

              Robert.

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