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  • Espionage is esponge by the way, spell check changed it

  • Homeboy, the distance from the equator has an impact of course, but even if you try this in Australia and London in a tin like this it wouldn't work. The forces of the coriolis effect are tiny when compared to the shape of the vessel and espionage is totally correct, it takes weeks to set this up in proper conditions, with a very large tank and a small outlet. Not sure what part of my original comment you think is wrong ?

  • this explains everythiuign

  • All these experiments are fake. The truth is it takes weeks of eliminating all other disturbances, using only a CIRCULAR container, in a scientific laboratory with very careful tools, to demonstrate this effect in this way. However, it is good tourism money for these countries.

  • @ESponge2000 No, the truth is that you have to be hundreds of kilometers away from the equator to experience any effect.

  • Staggering that people still believe this... It has nothing to do with the earths rotation whatsoever. This is down to the shape of the sink and the drain. If the coriolis effect was strong enough to affect water draining in a sink it would be very difficult to walk in a straight line.

  • @FabianBom Wrong. The reason this is fake, is because you need to be hundreds of kilometers away from teh equator to experience any effect. On top of that you of course need much more perfect conditions that this.

  • A fake...

  • The laws of physics don't think it's a fake...

  • Well... the coriolis effect is produced due to a small acceleration acting during a long time. The order of this acceleration is determined by the following mathematic expression:

    acol = -2 x w x v

    Where, in this situation, w is the earth rotation rate and v is the velocity of the fluid following the south-north direction. If you make some numbers you will realize that this "experiment" is a fake.

  • you are right other than the (-) about the equation. F(coriolis) = 2mv X(cross) W . but the experiment is not fake...I guess hurricanes in the norhtern hemisphere don't actually rotate counterclockwise while those in the south rotate clockwise even though that is all that has ever been observed...Try reading Classical Mechanics by Taylor, chapter 9.

  • Well, it's true that Hurricanes are generated by the coriolis effect, but as I said, it's because of the order of this acceleration. An Hurricane needs about some days to be created, this acceleration produces the motion after a long time. Time of this experiment is not enought to be the reason of its motion. Check the equations! and try to do this experiment at home, you will see that this kind of vortex don't follow your tesis!

  • I can't do the experiment at home...I don't live on the equator.

  • "but the circle is in the middle" haha, that tourist WILL NOT be fooled!!! it was a nice museum I have to admit. Check out my version!

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