Which way will an inverse garden sprinkler rotate?

Subject: Which way will an inverse garden sprinkler rotate?

Date: Fri Sep 18 15:28:55 1998
Posted by Professor Don Quayle
Grade level: teacher/prof
School: Open University
City: Milton Keynes State/Province: No state entered.
Country: UK
Area of science: Physics
ID: 906150535.Ph

Message:


If a rotating garden sprinkler is immersed in water, and the water 
sucked or drained away through the nozzles, which way will it turn, if 
indeed it does turn? And more importantly, what is the explanation for 
its behaviour? (I've tried asking a number of physicists this 
question, and I cannot get a consensus opinion - only conflicting 
answers. I very much hope you can help with this.)

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