P4_2 Earth’s Toilet Trouble

• Main Authors: Morris, Owen William, Banks, Lewis Jefferey, Laird, Aaron James, Morris, Liam Stuart
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The University of Leicester 2021
• Subjects: North Pole
• Online Access: https://journals.le.ac.uk/ojs1/index.php/pst/article/view/3906

How large a radius would a toilet bowl need to have in order to cause the Earth to stop rotating? In this paper, a circular motion model of the common flush toilet is explored. By keeping the height of the flush constant and calculating the mass of the water for every possible radius; we have calculated that the toilet bowl would need to have a radius of 4.65 × 10^8 m. For this scenario to occur, the motion of the flush would need to be in a clockwise direction when located on the North Pole to cause the Earth to cease rotating on its axis.