What direction is counterclockwise left or right?

Answer 1

Counterclockwise direction is to the left. This direction is opposite to the clockwise direction, which is to the right. In mathematics and physics, counterclockwise rotation is considered positive, while clockwise rotation is considered negative.

Answer 2

It rotates from West to East ( counter-clockwise if you are looking down onto the north pole ). We see that the sun rises from East and sets in West. Actually, the sun does not move but the earth rotates in the opposite direction i.e. from west to east , so it appears as if the sun is moving from east to west.

Answer 3

It depends which way you are looking at it. If you are looking upon the solar system from the "top" or north (looking down on the North Pole), it is anti-clockwise. If you are looking from the south, it's clockwise. Since most of the people on Earth live in the northern hemisphere, we tend to consider things from the north (much to the chagrin of the Australians), so anti-clockwise (counterclockwise) it is.

Nearly all the spins and orbits of the planets (and the rotation of the Sun) are in the same direction, ie. counterclockwise when observed from above Earth's north pole. Some moons orbit their planets clockwise (retrograde orbits) and the planet Venus has somehow obtained a very slow clockwise spin.

Answer 4

left

from 12 at top left to 9 then 6 then 3

and so on ...

Also known as anti-clockwise

Answer 5

Earth rotates counter clockwise as viewed from the north pole, from west to east. This is what makes the sun appear to rise in the east and set in the west.

Answer 6

ANTICLOCKWISE

Answer 7

To the left for counter clockwise

Answer 8

LEFT