Physical Education A-Level
Stability
What Stability means in Physical Education A-Level, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
A dimension that distinguishes causes likely to remain the same, such as natural ability, from causes likely to change, such as effort or tactics.
Describes how resistant a body is to being displaced from its balanced position, and it depends on four interacting mechanical factors.
Topics that use Stability
- Attribution theory (AQA A-Level)
- Biomechanical principles (AQA A-Level)
Related terms
- Application to success and failure in sport
- Attribution
- Attribution retraining
- Attribution, emotion and expectancy
- Base of support and contact area
- Base of support and toppling
- Body mass and inertia
- Centre of mass
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