Got to wondering about “The Coriolis Effect,” which gives us the common idea that water going down a drain circulates clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern.
Got to wondering about “The Coriolis Effect,” which gives us the common idea that water going down a drain circulates clockwise in the northern hemisphere and counter-clockwise in the southern.
So should we wind coils in a clockwise manner here north of the equator?
Interesting implication
If we could erect an antenna at the north or south pole, could we then just use a straight wire as a coil?
🙂
I See It Now
Well, SCWIS,
I think at the poles you’d need to wind a coil vertically.
Coriolis effect
The Coriolis effect is very small, especially over small areas. It does affect the direction of large-area weather systems (counterclockwise in the northern hemisphere, opposite in the southern). It doesn’t affect a small system, like the vortex produced by an ordinary drain. Perhaps a very carefully controlled experiment can be set up using a precision drain to demonstrate the Coriolis effect. Coils wouldn’t be affected either.
Well sure, if you want to be serious…
Snopes.com researched and bashed that old wives tale a while ago, here:
Flush Bosh, at Snopes.com
Further review indicated this particular bit of “that which is not so” seems to have originated with high school science teachers, tourist entertainers near the equator and a little help from the magic box known as television
Bad Coriolis
And
Bad Coriolis FAQ
High End Audio Marketing Opportunity
How about a $75,000 mono block with ulta-linear, anti-Coriolis, transformers wound with oxygen free silver wire. OK, the idea is officially on the web. Let’s see how long it takes for them to pick it up.
Sales Dispatch
PhilB, your idea is something that could be sold to the military by the warehouse load.