Verse to remember electrical colours
Verse to remember electrical colours
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Someone told me that there was a verse that was used to remember the order of the resistor colour numbers. He said that it wasn't politically correct so it wasn't used nowadays. PC or not, he couldn't remember it. Anyone know what it is?





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Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it. ~Mark Twain
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Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain
Sadly it gives the inverse colour order.
There is, however, a non PC version for the correct order of colours:
Virgins In Bed Get Your Organs Red
JMW
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"Bad Boys Rob Only Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly Gold and Silver."
Never knew whether it was PC because PC wasn't in the vocabulary.
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on the Mnemonic tab
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An adjective can be distinguished from an adverb by SOCK'M (what size, which one, what color, what kind, how many)
How about: Oscar Had A Herd of Aardvarks - for the three trig functions
But my all-time favorite is Certain Obnoxious Students Detest Memorization of Paleozoic Periods (Cambrian Ordovician Silurian Devonian Mississippian Pennsylvanian Permian).
Man, we are sho nuff a bunch of nerds...
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Oh Hell Another Hour Of Algebra
Adriaan.
I am an Engineer/part time student (Mechatronics) from South Africa.
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-Kirby
Kirby Wilkerson
Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.
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Actually, I refer to the great chief Soh-Cah-Toa when my brain is foggy, just like Kirby.
Good on y'all,
Goober Dave
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Just me, though...
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-Kirby
Kirby Wilkerson
Remember, first define the problem, then solve it.