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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-02 00:18:59

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Why do we favor calling a particular circular direction as if we all were taking the vantage point of being quot;abovequot; or quot;outsidequot;, be it a galaxy or solar system, or a path on the ground, or the turning of a key?

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Asked by Michael Marshall
on 2009-07-01 17:31:31

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-02 02:59:35

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90 percent of americans for example areRight handed. Also right footed. In a Desert you would eventually walk in acircle due to the fact that your rightSide of your body is pulling you to theRight. Ha- quoted from birthday boy at aBar. Science man

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-02 05:14:52

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In some of the States of Australia horse races are conducted clockwise, in others anticlockwise.On the other hand (or foot) as far as I know all military forces that march in step do so by stepping off with the left foot first. Why is that?

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by nk
on 2009-07-02 09:26:27

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It is because of human heart incliend toward right from the left irrespetive of fact that one is left or right. When spinter sprinting due to centrifugal force human heart remains in that the position if he/she sprints in anticlockwise direction and no damage caused due to the speed of runing. That#39;s what was thought by olympic federation and laid rules. Hence races are anticlockwise direction. But in realty heart and surrounding connecting tissues and muscles are so strong that it can easily withstand any force acting on the heart due to run. This thought by olympians is seems too much use of science in making complexity analyisy of simple things. No casualty reported due to sprinting clockwise.

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-02 16:27:44

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Isn#39;t Japanese and Chinese writing vertical? Therefore they don#39;t read left-to-right. So their running tracks should also be vertical, or nearly so, perhaps going downhill. Surely that would help set some records too.

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-04 07:46:53

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A lot of comments about why clockwise/anti-clockwise but no one has answered: are some runners favoured?. Some thoughts: 1. Sure, some runners have one leg longer or stronger, but does that actually equate to an advantage? 2. The curve is fairly gradual, so perhaps can it be regarded as straight locally anyway? 3. Having an asymmetric body may be a disadvantage on the straights compared to someone symmetric (poorer technique perhaps). 4. Finally, if there is an advantage, is it significant/material?

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-04 08:40:41

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If the outter leg ran 10cm wider than the inner leg on the curves, it would run an extra 63cm in total (per lap). Interestingly, this is independent of the size of the circle being run around and is simply 10cm*pi*2=63cm. If the track was as big as a planet, the outer leg would still only have to travel an extra 63cm!Do runners run with one foot in front of the other, or slightly aside? I do not know, but running say an extra 63cm per lap with the weaker leg could be the difference between winning and losing.

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Anonymous
on 2009-07-05 11:43:18

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In occultism, going anticlockwise is associated with the left-hand path, i.e. with evil. If there is anything in that idea, all those millions of people looking at athletes going withershins around stadia are contiually replenishing the magic potential for evil.Even if this is nonsense, the people who set things up this way, may belive it works.

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Round and round Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden(Image: dlritter, stock.xchng)
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Answered by Ray
on 2009-07-08 16:32:56

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re the plane-turning comment... I was taught that small planes turn easier in one direction due to the airflow from the prop being somewhat spiral in nature, causing an asymmetrical drag/lift on one side. There is commonly a fixed trim tab on the tail to offset this. Then there is the precession of the motor/prop mass that rotates in one direction, but my physics isn#39;t up to analyzing the effect!

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Thinking person's crumpet

A little while ago we froze a packet of those pancake-like products that in these parts we call crumpets. At the time, the sealed plastic packet seemed to contain a lot of air, but after four months in our freezer it had contracted tightly against the crumpets, which had also shrunk. After two more months at room temperature, the whole package appeared to have shrunk still further, though with no sign of mould or decay (see photo, left).The ingredients are listed as flour, water, yeast, raising agents, E450, E500, salt, sugar, preservative, calcium propionate. What's going on?Chris Greenwood, Ettington, Warwickshire, UK

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Answered by Anonymous
on 2008-11-28 02:54:00

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Was it very warm when you put them in there? air expands when it is warm, maybe when it went in the freezer it shrunk as the air got cold. I'm no expert though, it was just a thought.

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