mnemonics

[mathgrant]

Name some interesting mnemonics here!

Example:

Whenever I need to remember the trigonometric functions, I use SOHCAHTOA:

Sine = Opposite / Hypotenuse

Cosine = Adjacent / Hypotenuse

Tangent = Opposite / Adjacent

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"Mathematics is like the Nile, begins in minuteness, ends in magnificence." --Charles Caleb Colton

"I could have driven across Texas in the time it took her to say, 'I don't know'!"--contestant on The Weakest Link

[Vanyo]

Kind Professors [edit]Can[/edit] Often Fail Good Students

Kingdom
Phylum
[edit]CLASS[/edit]
Order
Family
Genus
Species

The names of the hierarchical classes used to classify living things.

[edit]I geuss a mnemonic isn't very good if you can't remember it![/edit]

[This message has been edited by Vanyo (edited 07-28-2001).]

[Quailman]

Vanyo, you've got no class whatsoever!

King Phillip Came Over For Good Soup (Or another S-word depending on audience).

Kingdom
Phylum
Class
Order
Family
Genus
Species

[CzarJ]

[Courk]

code:

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Oscar Had   A Heap   Of Apples


   SINE     COSINE    TANGENT

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You just remeber the order sin, cos, tan, and that letter 1 is divided by letter 2. I can't spell sochatoa or whatever without using this.

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[Courk]

In 7th and 8th grade math our teacher made up math songs to go with the different fomulas and what not, I'll post them as I remember tham.

No real tune, sung like a country song:
Scalene, you have no equal sides, Isoceles, you have just one pair, equilateral, you're all the same, scalene your physique is so unique.

[jesternl]

of course there's KNAP
Kathode (Dutch spelling, sorry ) Negative, Anode Positive
and I'm frantically trying to remember the one for the order of the planets...


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GRTZ,
Jester
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"
'Verbal' Kint

[Sofis]

Interesting. I was thinking of posting that one, except in Swedish, it's PANK. Of course, both of these are kind of useless to the English-speakers as neither word is a commonly used English word...

[jesternl]

Well I think they woul,d've heard of a cathode and an anode....
Then again, most haven't heard of the metric system either


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GRTZ,
Jester
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"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist"
'Verbal' Kint

[Sofis]

Uh... I meant that neither pank nor knap is a common word in the English language

[Quailman]

I just remembered North Carolina and Pennsylvania, whose two-letter abbreviations are NC and PA.

[Lepton]

mnemonics are for people that can't use their CoCoMo (cerebrun, cerebellum, midbrain)

[OcularGold]

if anyone can come up with mnemonics to help memorize all 20 amino acids, with pk values, polarity/charge, structures, three letter abbreviations, and one letter abbreviations, i would be very impressed.

yep, i had to memorize this all for several exams...

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I've seen water. It's water that's all.

[CrystyB]

As remembered from Asimov's short fiction story "An overheard conversation" (or something like that):

HOMES - Huron Ontario Michigan Erie Superior

Most Voters Earn Money Just Showing Up Near Poles - Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto


Yours,
Cristian.

OG, if you could be kind enough to share that information in a tabel-like format, i would apreciate it. If you think it is irrelevant, ok, but at least mail me.

[OcularGold]

ill post it sometime tonight.. no diagrams though, those take too way too long here..

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I've seen water. It's water that's all.

[OcularGold]

okay.. heres a table:
http://www.cmbi.kun.nl/swift/future/aainfo/struct.htm

i didnt have to memorize masses or occurance%. the table has the names, structures, 3 and 1 letter abbreviations, but no pk values.

apparently, you need to memorize this for the mcat as well (mcat is the american pre-med exam).

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I've seen water. It's water that's all.

[mathgrant]

See if you know what this one is for! :P

Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Bugs) (some people may know other mnemonics for this, but this is the one I know)

[EEEM]

My Very Eager Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas

Mercury
Venus
Earth
Mars
Jupiter
Saturn
Uranus
Neptune
Pluto

There're your basic nine planets.

Another one that's really commone is ROY G. BIV for the colors of the rainbow.

Red
Orange
Yellow
Green
Blue
Indigo
Violet

In my psych book when they were mentioning mnemonics they used vibgyor... Say it. It sounds fun.

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I've never been a great mathematician, but I know that you + me = raunchy!

[Luna]

mathgrant - that's the order of the sharp notes in music. The version I learned was
Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle

which reverses to get

Battle Ends And Down Goes Charles' Father

which gives you the mnemonic for the flats...

[jwok]

for the planets - i learned My Very Excellent Mother Just Served Us Nice Pickles (corny, i know...)

as for the amino acids - here's a little story. I first had to memorize them for Ap Bio (not structures or pH, just names and abbreviations) so i made these up, they're not very good but it helped

polar amino acids (basic, i think) dhrk (might be dehrk, was there an e??-pronounced dirk..i was playing dragon's lair three at the time.)
polar acidic - stnq (pronounced stink...best i could do)

non polar - flaimyvw (as in flaming volks wagon...yes its corny)

special non conformist - Crayons, Glue and Paper (cgp)

Then I got to college and they changed those groups on me ( i think tryptophan became polar and they dropped the special group)...really screwed me up. Had to remember the whole thing again.


Here's a couple others

a rat in toms house might eat toms ice cream

please excuse my dear aunt sally

please mention any thing

a tall girl can live very long supposing she can act perfectly


jim

[Bicho the Inhaler]

Luna, that's really cool. I've never heard that; I learned "Fat Cats Go Down Alleys Eating Birds" (I think birds makes a bit more sense than bugs)

What about the spaces/lines on the treble/bass clefs? I've heard so many different versions, but here're the ones I learned:

FACE (just "face")
Every Good Boy Does Fine
All Cows Eat Grass (or "Granola Bars" if you want the top B)
Great Big Dogs Fight Alligators (yikes, I'm surprised I remember that one)

[pikachamp]

please excuse my dear aunt sally

order of operations!!!!!!
parentheses
exponents
multiply
divide
add
subtract

[ChienFou]

The UK standard for colours of the rainbow is:
Richard of York gave battle in vain

Days in the month is a rhyme
30 days has September,
April June and November
All the rest have 31
Saving February alone
having 28 days clear
and 29 in each leap year

East Europeans reckon this by counting the spaces and knuckles like this:
Make a fist and touch the forefinger knuckle saying january, the gap between forefinger and middle finger is february up to July for on the little finger knuckle. Repeat the little finger knuckle for August and work your way back to the middle finger for december. it's quite neat.

[Sofis]

East Europeans and Swedes. Except we start with the little finger knuckle and move towards the index finger. Some move on to the index finger of the other hand instead of bouncing on the index finger knuckle and returning.

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[jesternl]

The Dutch learn it as the Swedes do

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GRTZ,
Jester

Homo Sapiens non urinat in ventum.

[OcularGold]

hey! i do that too, just like sofis does. my mother taught it to me, so maybe mexicans do it just like the swedes, dutch, n eastern eyropeans

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[Bicho the Inhaler]

Yeah,I learned it that way too...moving to the other hand and going to the other little finger.

[test78]

I have to say Brazilians do it too

[CzarJ]

Yeah, and some Oklahomans apparently. I just remember now, though

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x=(-b±(sqrt(b^2-4ac)))/2a

I seem to remember... a song...

[justindl]

cows eat granola bars?

[Raist]

See I always thought that the month ryme ended... Excepted Febuary which is all screwed up

[quercitron]

OIL RIG
Oxidation is loss, reduction is gain (of electrons)

[Vinny]

*boost*

a trick i learned, but very rarely use:

To remember a list of things (e.g. shopping list)
you take the first word and second word, then imagining something totally whack out scene with the two words together, then the second and third words, totally different scene, the stranger the better, then the third word and fourth word, etc. You'll have to remember the first and last word to start of the remembering process and know when to stop.

Example:

For the following shopping list:

Egg
Milk
Butter
Bread
Poptarts
Mushrooms
Green beans
Clam Chowder

Egg + Milk = A river of milk with eggs bobbing in it.

Milk + Butter = A mountain of Butter squirting out volcanic milk

Butter + Bread = Butterflies flying together and landed, forming a shape of a bread (a la Alice)

Bread + Poptarts = A piece of toast and Poptarts duke it out in a wrestling area

Poptarts + Mushrooms = little dancing mushrooms popping out of a toaster along with the poptarts

Mushrooms + Green beans = A smiling face composed of 2 mushrooms for eyes and nose, a smiley with the bean, and the hair made out of beans

Green beans + Clam Chowder = little clams swimming in an ocean of chowder along side sway reeds made of green beans.

[Vinny]

Now for the test. I just finished typing up the above post, making up those images on the fly. Without rereading it, I shall reiterate the list.

First: you got the Egg
milky river with bobbing eggs
Milk
mountain of butter and volcanic Milk
Butter
Butterflies forming bread
Bread
Bread and Poptarts fighting
Poptarts
Poptarts and mushrooms spewing out of a toaster
Mushrooms
Smiling mushrooms & green beans face
Green Beans
Clams swiming in chowder with swaying greenbeans
Clam Chowder

[Vinny]

tada! 100%!

~does a jig~

I'll try it with a longer list of more complicated items some other time.

[Hitchhiker]

FOIL (first, outside, inside, last) when multiplying binomials

And my mother can still recite the English "linking verbs" (intransitives?) as she learned in school: am is are was were be being been become can could should may might must...

[Werebear]

My favorite acronym is for the nuclear power plants in Washington State...
the Washington Public Power Supply System.

WPPSS!

Werebear

[mathgrant]

A poem to remember the spelling of DIFFICULTY:

"Mrs. D, Mrs. I,
Mrs. FFI,
Mrs. C, Mrs. U,
Mrs. LTY!"

*slap*

"Mrs. D, Mrs. I, you're supposed to be teaching spelling, not poetry!"

(name that movie)

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Sometimes life gives you a deck without any aces. Deal with it!

[Hitchhiker]

Matilda, of course.

A class in Hawaii once came up with this mnemonic for the original 13 colonies: Vicious MonSters Hate Yucky Cooking. ManY Really Dig Papayas 'N' Juicy Sweet Guavas.

(Found it in a GAMES Magazine once.)

Virginia, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Rhode Island, Delaware, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, New Jersey, South Carolina, Georgia

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[netviper13]

For CISCO Networking you have to memorize the layers of the network topology.

Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away

Physical, Datalink, Network, Transport, Session, Presentation, Application.