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Mnemonics

Mnemonics

Mnemonics

(OP)
I'm sure we all know
"Man Very Early Made Jars Serve Useful Needs Period"
or something similar to help remember the order of the planets.  But what about mnemonics specifically for engineering?

All I can come up with is
"Some Old Horse Caught Another Horse Taking Oats Away" (Sin=Opposite/Hypoteneuse, Cos=Adjacent/Hypoteneuse, Tan=Opposite/Adjacent)
but that was high school geometry. Any others?  I need all the help I can get remembering stuff these days.

--Jonathan

RE: Mnemonics

All Silver Tea Cups.

This is used to check what sign(+/-) the trignometric function gets. All are positive in first quadrant, sin and secant in second and so on.

May I Have A Large Container Of Coffee.

The first letters doesn't fit but the no. of letters in each word form the value of Pi to 7 digits. (3.1415926)

RE: Mnemonics

Tall Geologists Can Fly And Other Queer Things Can Do

Moh's scale of hardness for minerals.

Try a search on "Cranial Nerve" and "mnemonic" for some rude ones.

M

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Dr Michael F Platten

RE: Mnemonics

"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain"
This is the colours of the spectrum in reverse order. I'm afraid the mnemonic for the correct order, that I was told by a nice lady teacher, isn't for the pure of heart so I'll accept clean versions here.

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RE: Mnemonics

Happy Henry likes Beryl Brown chewing nuts on Fridays. Nell said may all silly physicians suffer chills always.

The first 18 elements of the periodic table.

RE: Mnemonics

To remember the values of the colored stripes on resistors:

Bad Boys Race Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls

or the variation which I learned in the Marine Corps which I find distasteful albeit easier to remember.

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Hope I don't get red-flagged for this one...

My high school biology teacher taught us "Kinky People Cry Out For Great Sex". (Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.)

Hg

RE: Mnemonics

Bad Boys R. Our Young Girls But Violet Goes Willingly

   Alternate resistor code

Roy G. Biv

   Alternate rainbow colors

TTFN

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Oscar Had A Heap Of Apples is one that I use to help remember the basic trig functions.

RE: Mnemonics

I don't get it.

Hg

RE: Mnemonics

HgTX - If it is my post that you are referring to, perhaps this will help

      Oscar  (Opposite)
Sin = -----
      Had    (Hypotenuse)

      A      (Adjacent)
Cos = -----
      Head   (Hypotenuse)

      Of     (Opposite)
Tan = -----
      Apples (Adjacent)

RE: Mnemonics

CajunCenturion,

Seems rather complex compared to SOHCAHTOA. With yours you have to remember that they are in the order sin cos tan.

M

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Dr Michael F Platten

RE: Mnemonics

Fair point.  The key is of course to use what works for you.

RE: Mnemonics

Does anyone remember that series of songs that was produced (about 40 give or take years ago) in cartoon form that were used as a memory tool for quite a number of things?  There was one for the Preamble to the US Constitution, there were several for mathematics ("Multiplication Rock" - does that ring a bell?), and several others as well.

RE: Mnemonics

I'm just a bill, yes I'm only a bill, and I'm sitting here on Capitol hill...


Conjunction junction, what's your function...

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RE: Mnemonics

It was called "Schoolhouse Rock."  It's now available on CD/DVD.

RE: Mnemonics

We got the Schoolhouse Rock DVD for my boys (ages 4 and 2).  Big hits with the little ones.

I remember hearing that immigrants applying for citizenship were encouraged to use Schoolhouse Rock to study for their citizenship test.

RE: Mnemonics

IRStuff,
I learned it differently
"Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go, Before Victoria Goes Willingly"

Another Resistor decoder

RE: Mnemonics

Here are the first 14 digits of pi:

"How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics"

RE: Mnemonics

Doesn't an abbreviation (strictly speaking) have to form a pronounceable word before it becomes a mnemonic?

Another one: Kangaroos Hate Dogs but Don't Catch Mice - Kilo-, Hecta-, Deka(?)-, Base unit, Deci, Centi-, Milli-.

Bung
Life is non-linear...

RE: Mnemonics

Here is one for free energy:

Goldfish are Hell without Tartar Sauce

ΔG = ΔH - T·ΔS

Regards,

Cory

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RE: Mnemonics

Bung--no, that's an acronym. Mnemonics are memory aids.

Hg, ex-linguist

p.s. Hey, your mmemonic covers the stuff I know already. Anyone have one that covers all the teras and picos and femtos and other extreme SI prefixes?

RE: Mnemonics

PV=nRT
Pure Virgins are Never Raped Twice

RE: Mnemonics

I've heard a few variations of ones already mentioned above:

Kings Play Chess On Fuzzy Green Squares  (kingdom, phylum, etc)

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets  (my mom taught me that one)


RE: Mnemonics

There's a VERY old one for star color temps, and goes something like:

Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me.

TTFN

RE: Mnemonics

Bad Old Girls Bring Syphils
Blue Orange Green Brown Slate

Why Run Backward You Varmit
White Red Black Yellow Violet

Telephone cable color coding.

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please excuse my dear aunt sally
(order of "easy" math operations - parentheses, exponents, mult, div, add, sub)

RE: Mnemonics

Mother Very Easily Made Jam Sandwiches Using No Peanutbutter.

-with regards to Robert Anton Wilson

nick

RE: Mnemonics

Toms Old Aunt
Sat On Her
Coat And Hat

for Tangent, Sine, and Cosine

but remembering cosine as "cosy" i.e adjacent is the one I use (the rest just fall into place).

Stephen A

RE: Mnemonics

I always thought that "Sohcahtoa" had a nice pidgin Native American ring to it and works for many math students as the mnemonic itself.

Likewise "Pemdas."


TTFN

RE: Mnemonics

Sep A Rat Eeee!

(Separate)

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