Hypotheses & Educated Guesses

From an old physics homework. (Essay). I got an A!

Hypothesis is an idea or a set of ideas, more succinctly a number of educated speculations on what “a something” is, and what its effect is on “something else.”  A hypothesis is the beginning stage of a theory, after observation, based on educated guesses.  An educated guess is a set of known information about a particular thing or scenario, gathered into a general prediction. Ex.: a car driving ten miles per hour hitting a stationary car wou...