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GCSE Physics · key term
A tentative, testable explanation for an observation or phenomenon.
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Revise: Hypotheses, Planning and Scientific RationaleA hypothesis offers a tentative answer: it explains why the phenomenon might occur. Existing scientific theories can help you develop and justify that explanation.
A tentative, testable explanation from which a prediction can be made.
Keep the hypothesis and prediction distinct: the hypothesis explains why something happens; the prediction states what you expect to observe in a particular test.
Write that evidence supports a hypothesis or increases confidence in it, not that one experiment proves it.
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A proposed, testable explanation for an observation or pattern in evidence.