The terms in bold link to topics in the AQA, Edexcel, OCR, WJEC and CCEA A-level specifications, as well as the IB, Pre-U and SQA exam specifications.
When you are deciding if a body will fall, you need to think about the forces acting on it as described by Newton’s laws of motion. Whether it will balance depends on the position of its centre of gravity and the principle of moments. To describe any rotational motion as it topples over, you need to consider the body’s angular momentum and moment of inertia.
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