In the 1960s, thanks mainly to MIT mechanical-engineering professor Ascher Shapiro ’38, PhD ’46, the world became captivated by the question of how a bathtub drains. Harold Edgerton captured this side ...
It’s a common misconception, and it’s just not true. At the scale of motion involved with draining water, the force caused by the Earth’s rotation (the deflective Coriolis force) is too small to have ...
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