Will thebe hanging fixtures in your Habitat home?

> > As long as it were hanging still, it would not divert from what we're used to
> > seeing on Earth. Only if you set it swinging like a pendulum would you notice
> > the Coriolis effect being much greater than on Earth.

> I'm probably missing something, as I don't see how that would make it
> visible.
On Earth, the Coriolis effect makes the Focault pendulum change its plane of motion, as seen by an observer standing next to it. Not on the equator; with a period equal to the period of rotation of the Earth if set on one of the poles.
Now, imagine a pendulum set to swing in the plane which contains the axis of rotation of the habitat - ie. you stand looking down the spin axis and set the pendulum swinging away from and towards you. As the pendulum descends, it will feel a Coriolis effect that pushes it at right angles from its direction of motion. As it ascends, it will be pushed the other way. It would, seen from above, trace not a line but a figure eight.
Set it swinging around an axis parallel to the spin axis of the hab, and you won't notice a thing unless you measure very accurately the pendulum's speed at every point in the arc that it traces.

> Yes. An elevator would be even more interesting. I think that elevators
> that go a significant fraction of the radius of the habitat in a short
> time may need a pivot to help remove the tendency of the occupants to
> fall over due to the coriolis force- however if the elevator car is
> permitted to change its angle whilst in motion then the occupants should
> just feel a force acting straight down; which may help with their
> balance. I have a feeling that a certain measure of motion sickness
> may be inevitable however ;-)
Just rising swiftly from a chair might make you fall over or stagger a step or two, if you were in a small hab and your reflexes were still unused to Coriolis. A way to distinguish greenhorns and cheekakos from old spacers, perhaps. :-) Or a way for a scheming, dirty pig to "accidentally" fall into the lap of the woman sitting next to him.
"That flatlander sure is a long time finding his spacelegs! Six years and the moron still can't walk straight!"

Jon Lennart Beck.