"physical settings" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to a physical space or location where an activity, event, or situation takes place. For example, "The physical settings of the play influence how the story develops and unfolds."
Three different sets of physical settings are used, two of them linked by the scaling theorem, while in the third of the parameters is intentionally modified for comparison.
Nightly, it stages a meta-performance by artists, audiences and the physical settings that allow contact between them in public space.
Indeed, they conscientiously set themselves to reproducing all the hitherto-ignored aspects of contemporary life and society its mental attitudes, physical settings, and material conditions.
Except for those that are very short, dreams are reported to take place in ordinary physical settings, with about half of them seeming quite familiar to the dreamer.
The Dominican people share religious, linguistic, and historical traditions, but their society remains largely fragmented and individualistic, and their day-to-day experiences are commensurate to differences between their socioeconomic classes, ethnic groupings, and physical settings, among other factors.
Just as the protagonists of "Girl" -- Mr. Auteuil plays a professional knife thrower and Ms. Paradis is the girl he saves from suicide to become his professional target -- can chat casually with each other across time and space, so do Mr. Leconte's films push to transcend specific epochs and physical settings.
It's of no concern that Scorsese didn't actually record some of the physical settings and actions depicted in the movie; what matters is that he achieves an idea of reality that is (to use a word at the very core of the film) persuasive.
Museums and historic sites depicted the birth of the United States as a morality tale and an Anglo-Saxon family dispute, pitting tyrannical King George and his redcoats against freedom-loving colonial subjects (helped, just a bit, by the French).Often physical settings added to this sense of quaintness.
