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
"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





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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)
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Moh's scale of hardness for minerals.
Try a search on "Cranial Nerve" and "mnemonic" for some rude ones.
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Dr Michael F Platten
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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.
JMW
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The first 18 elements of the periodic table.
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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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My high school biology teacher taught us "Kinky People Cry Out For Great Sex". (Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.)
Hg
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Alternate resistor code
Roy G. Biv
Alternate rainbow colors
TTFN
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Hg
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Oscar (Opposite)
Sin = -----
Had (Hypotenuse)
A (Adjacent)
Cos = -----
Head (Hypotenuse)
Of (Opposite)
Tan = -----
Apples (Adjacent)
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Seems rather complex compared to SOHCAHTOA. With yours you have to remember that they are in the order sin cos tan.
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Dr Michael F Platten
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Conjunction junction, what's your function...
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I remember hearing that immigrants applying for citizenship were encouraged to use Schoolhouse Rock to study for their citizenship test.
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I learned it differently
"Bye Bye Rosie Off You Go, Before Victoria Goes Willingly"
Another Resistor decoder
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"How I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy chapters involving quantum mechanics"
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Another one: Kangaroos Hate Dogs but Don't Catch Mice - Kilo-, Hecta-, Deka(?)-, Base unit, Deci, Centi-, Milli-.
Bung
Life is non-linear...
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Goldfish are Hell without Tartar Sauce
ΔG = ΔH - T·ΔS
Regards,
Cory
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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?
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Pure Virgins are Never Raped Twice
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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)
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Oh, be a fine girl, kiss me.
TTFN
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A rat in the house may eat the ice cream
(Arithmetic)
See, I still remember after 30 years!!
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Blue Orange Green Brown Slate
Why Run Backward You Varmit
White Red Black Yellow Violet
Telephone cable color coding.
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(order of "easy" math operations - parentheses, exponents, mult, div, add, sub)
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-with regards to Robert Anton Wilson
nick
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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
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Likewise "Pemdas."
TTFN
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(Separate)