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Looking for NASA Handbook MSC-03909

FalTorPan

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While browsing Google Books, I found the Human Factors Design Guidebook. Page 166 has a very good diagram explaining the Coriolis effect in structures that rotate in order to simulate gravity.

The diagram is from NASA's Habitability Data Handbook MSC-03909. I searched for it online, and this is the closest that I've come without having to purchase something:

Seach Results from NASA Technical Research Server

Multiple volumes of the handbook appear in the search results, but each link leads to an unrelated document.

How might I find a hopefully free electronic copy of this handbook?
 
^ I assume someone in our SSDL might own the handbook. I can probably ask a few guys on Monday but I think it's a long shot.

As for the acceleration experienced due to the "Coriolis effect" it's a very simple concept mathematically. It's twice the product of the angular velocity tensor (of the station) and velocity vector of the person moving through the station. Using that formula and some design parameters of the rotating station you can probably work out some sort of "axial Coriolis profile" for some standard speeds if that is what you wanted.
 
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