0 If a tennis player or volleyball team has a set point, that player or team will win the set if they win the next point.
If you lose substantial weight easily and stay at the lower weight, your set point must have decreased.
I had been eating food with flavors stronger than sushi, so sushi might well raise the set point less per calorie.
We also know that it is initially (group uninfluenced set point) more positive.
We can plot the location of the set point in phase space.
The set point is prescribed by an external source and is not specified by the system itself.
Temperature regulation is achieved in the thermostat by minimizing the difference between the actual temperature of the room and that of the set point.
For example, the set point might fall 1 kg/day when at a high value and 0.5 kg/day when at a low value.
Despite small contact areas the occurring friction caused higher disturbance amplitudes, which have been higher the smaller the force set point has been.