mnemonics

[Werebear]

If you're ever in Downtown Seattle, and lost, always remember Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest.

(Jefferson, James, Cherry, Columbia, Marion, Madison, Spring, Seneca, Univeristy, Union, Pike (home of the Pike Place Market), Pine.)

Werebear

[mathgrant]

I just watched WOF yesterday.

Vanna is holding a list of planets and pointing to the letters while saying:

Vanna: "'My very eager mother just served us nine pizzas.'"

Pat: "I can top that! Let's see. . . 'My velvet earmuffs (audience luaghs) make January seem unusually nippy (audience laughs, Pat pauses) , Pat.'"

------------------
Sometimes life gives you a deck without any aces. Deal with it!
The person sending the Morse code message found that he couldn't properly do a dot. He exclaimed, "Dash it all!"

[Hitchhiker]

Sir, I bear a rhyme excelling
In mystic force, and magic spelling
Numerical sprites elucidate
All my own striving can't relate
Or locate they who can cogitate
And so finally terminate. Finis.

[SaberKitty]

quercitron, that oil rig thingy saved my butt on my chem final last tuesday. there were about 3 questions on redox, and i was thought to myself, "oil rig, duh, that's oxidation then"...except i don't sound that stupid...(i hope) anywho- thanks a billion!
-SK

edit because i can't spell..like usual...

[This message has been edited by SaberKitty (edited 06-16-2002 04:11 PM).]

[teddy]

Mnemonics or Planets. Was taught to me in Grade 5 I think. I was 10 yrs old but still remember it!!

My Very Educated Mother Just Showed Us Nine Planets

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

[Hitchhiker]

Either you all understood exactly what the mnemonic in Reply 43 is for (having heard it before, or figured it out using l33t GL brain-powers), or else you assumed I was rambling about nothing and ignored it.

Either is possible.

[Orbiting]

I will be the first to publicly admit, Hitchhiker, that I a)did not know what that mnemonic was for *and* b)thought you were rambling. It sounds lovely though...

[Hitchhiker]

I don't know who wrote it, because every time I've seen it, it was attributed to "Anonymous."

The word "numerical" is a big hint.

[Orbiting]

Got off my bum and looked it up...

I like this one too:
How I like a drink, alcoholic of course,
after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.

[HyToFry]

heh. I didn't know what a mnemonic was. (if I had read the title of the thread, or anything other than a couple of posts, I probably would have seen device and figured it out... not that I've read the title of this thread yet. hmm... no help there.

Anyway... I always liked

Three point one four one five nine two six five three five eight nine seven nine three. (that's as far as I can get.)

[Hitchhiker]

MIT Math Team cheer:

e to the y, dy/dx
e to the x, dx!
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
Three point one four one five nine,
YAAAY TEAM!

[Ghost Post]

[JToomey]

"How I wish I could determine Pi! --
Eureka!" cried the great inventor
"Christmas pudding, christmas pie
is the problem's very center!"



In 10th grade Latin, we memorized the 7 hills of Rome via CAPE QVC (QVC is a shopping network):

Capitoline, Aventine, Palatine, Esquiline, Quirinal, Viminal, Caelian

(please excuse any forgotten spellings. )

------------------
The Big, Stupid Puzzle:
http://www.yark.org/puzzle

[Beartalon]

This was the one that got my through Chemistry class in my first year of university:

Here he lies, between bed clothes, nothing on, feeling nervous.
Naughty Margaret always sighed "Please stop clowning around!"

Hydrogen, Helium, Lithuium, Beryllium, Boron, Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Flourine, Neon, Sodium (Na), Magnesium, Aluminium, Silicon, Phosphorous, Sulfur, Chlorine, Argon

The first 18 elements of the periodic table, with each word have the chemical symbol embedded in it (within first three characters).

------------------
The Bear is Grumpy. Feed Him. Feed Him Now.

[This message has been edited by Beartalon (edited 06-26-2002 09:04 PM).]

[CrystyB]

H-hiker, now you lost me. The 3.1415926 one was somewhat obvious in the context (hey, i just noticed: it has a comma right where it's supposed to! Wow...), but for this newer one, i must be tired!

And for the record, i still remember the first 50 or so chem-elem from a poetry i read in a physics-popularisation book. ((that's a little far-streched. I keep remembering it b/c i read it about 20 times... I wonder if it makes any less sense in English! ))
Hi-he-li be-bo-char-no fluor-ne-na
Mg-al-si-phos-s cl-ar-po-ca sca-ti-va
Cro-man fe-co-ni cu-zin-ga
Ger-ars-se bro-krip-rub stro-y-zir
Niob-mo-tec ru-rho-pal-ag cad-in
Sta-stib te-io-xe-ces ba-la-ce-pra

The rest were 12 more lantanidae before a lot of silly transitionals...

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 06-27-2002 09:28 PM).]

[Beartalon]

Hey you, gimme back my _________ watch!
Aw gee, he stole my ___________ watch!

What am I talking about and what should be in the blanks?

I got this from an old episode of the Facts of Life when Tootie was studying for an exam.

[This message has been edited by Beartalon (edited 07-04-2002 11:57 PM).]

[Bicho the Inhaler]

quote:

---

e to the y, dy/dx
e to the x, dx!
Cosine, secant, tangent, sine,
Three point one four one five nine

---

Hey, the North Carolina team used that exact rhyme as their team statement at the Panasonic Academic Challenge (national quick-recall type academic team tournament)!

I wonder where it originated.

[Lucky Wizard]

Bump.

There are two mnemonics I've used for practical purposes -- the ROY G. BIV one mentioned earlier, plus one for the resistor color codes, which I've used in a couple of electrical projects I've done involving the use of resistors. I'm invising it for CzarJ

Numbers	Colors	Mnemonic
1	Black	Bad
2	Brown	Boys
3	Red	Rape
4	Orange	Our
5	Yellow	Young
6	Green	Girls
7	Blue	But
8	Violet	Violet
9	Gray	Gives
0	White	Willingly

It was also possible to append three more words -- "get some now" -- to the end of the sentence if you also wanted to remember the accuracy codes (gold, silver, none). I never had a use for them, so I don't remember what the possible accuracies were.

[Lucky Wizard]

Well, the mnemonic above helps you remember the colors and the order of the colors, but apparently not the corresponding numbers. I had these numbers wrong; turns out, Black represents 0, Brown is 1, etc... White is 9.

And I just remembered some other mnemonics I have used for practical purposes: the FOIL one mentioned before, plus a modified version of the OIL RIG one.

Also, I remember this mnemonic my chemistry teacher taught me: "Cats are cool! Cats are positive!" (helping us remember that cations are metal ions and are positive ions)

Recently I came up with two others that may be useful in the future.

For people learning Spanish: antes (before) comes before despues (after) when the two are put alphabetically. (I might have missed an accent there.)

For those taking a statistics course: The first letters of the four measurement levels -- nominal, ordinal, interval, ratio -- spell NOIR when put in the correct order.

[CrystyB]

or just think that Ca(lcium) is a cation...

What part of statistic is that N-O-I-R from, exactly? I think i didn't study that far...

[This message has been edited by CrystyB (edited 03-14-2003 11:02 PM).]

[Suspence]

All Roman Catholic Girls Eat Potato Chips...

Acts Romans Corinthians Galatians Ephesians Philipians Colossians...

------------------
I hate people who try to write interesting things in their signature

[Hitchhiker]

Bump. I'm curious about BearTalon's one.

[Buzzsaw]

S.C.U.B.A. to help you remmember self containing breating apparatus.

I have also have ones to help remember things about light amplification and moms who do not support operating under the influence liquor.

[Vinny]

What's the U stand for in SCUBA?

[Ghost Post]

underwater, i think

[casinopete]

I don't think I've ever actually used a mnemonic device. The trouble of coming up with one tends to fix the info to be remembered in my mind clearly enough that they just aren't useful afterwards.

[CrystyB]

what if you don't come up with it yourself? You hear it and go 'Hey, that's really going to ease the memorizing of those!'

Oh, and to correct the little flaws, scuba means self contained underwater breathing apparatus.

[robichelli]

For those of you who can't remember the capital of Nicaragua:
(To be said as quickly as possible) El Capital de Nicaragua es Managua!

[robichelli]

S-U-C-C-E-S-S!
that's the way you spell success!

[RequiemEternam]

re: Beartalon's post:
I absolutely loved the Facts of Life, right up until Cloris Leachman took Charlotte Rae's place. Anyway, Tootie helps Natalie study for a test.

Tootie: What do you say if someone steals your GOLD watch?
Natalie: 'ey, you! (Au)
Tootie: What it's just silver?
Natalie: Aw, gee (Ag)


[This message has been edited by RequiemEternam (edited 08-11-2003 02:53 PM).]

[Lucky Wizard]

Bump.

CrystyB -- it's actually not an important part of statistics, which may be why you don't recognize them. My mention of it was pretty much incidental.

Oh, and I learned a new (for me) way to memorize numbers: Herigone's number alphabet.

Some good resources on it are http://www.thememorypage.net/htiym3.htm and http://placevaluenumbers.com . It's good for memorizing square roots, addresses, locker combinations, and the like.

[This message has been edited by Lucky Wizard (edited 08-30-2003 07:26 PM).]

[Lucky Wizard]

Bump. I wasn't sure whether to post this in Spanish 101 or here, but I eventually chose here because I posted the other Spanish mnemonic here.

A little background: A few days ago I took a Spanish test. I did okay on it, but there was one part where I had to write a sentence using a form of acostarse. My problem was that I couldn't remember whether acostarse meant "to go to bed" and despertarse meant "to wake up", or whether it was the other way around. I eventually chose the correct definition (to go to bed). But it seems I wasn't the only one who had trouble remembering that.

So, the next day, I came up with this mnemonic:

Acostarse es antes
De dormir.

Despertarse es después
De dormir.

(Note: If you need help with antes and después, check my earlier post.)

[Buzzsaw]

what is this thread about? I mean, what's the real issue at hand here?
Let's get to the quick and put a courk in this nonsense.