Mnemonics

Dubs

After seeing it come up in a different thread I thought it might be a nice thread to have and help people remember things. So post whatever mnemonics you may have for whatever subjects no matter how ridiculous you think they are! In my opinion the strange ones are the most memorable! I'll start it off:

Chemistry mass spectrometer stages:
Viagra Is A Super Drug
Vaporization, Ionization, Acceleration, Separation, Detection

LivingDeadGirl

This won't really make too much sense but I use rythms and little bits of melodies(my own rather than stuff from songs, just a few notes!) to sing back maths formulas to myself in my head(I'm a freak, I know)! I had a rythmic one for the midpoint formula and a melodic one for the slope formula for the jc, and I still find myself using them now. It's more habit than need now of course. Need to make one up for the division of a line segment, NEVER remember that formula! Sorry, this is probably useless to anyone else, I don't really have any other techniques!

Gloom

In the revision book:
I Caught Leprocy Through Careless Experimentation
Isolation
Cutting
Ligation
Transformation
Cloning
Expression
(I think)


I Picked My Ass Today
I Party Monday And Tuesday

Interphase
Prophase
Metaphase
Anophase
Telophase

Heart:
L.O.R.D
Left Oxygenated
Right Deoxygenated

caroline1111

silly old Harry, caught a herring, trawling off america
sin=opp/hyp cos=adj/hyp tan=opp/adj

degausserxo

Things that effect the rate of a reaction.. Pink cats talk now. Crap.

P-Particle size
C-Concentration
T-Temperature
N-Nature of reactants
C-Catalysts


The stupid ones are easy to remember. For some reason a lot of my ones for chemistry involve pink cats

degausserxo

I Picked My Ass Today
I Party Monday And Tuesday

Interphase
Prophase
Metaphase
Anophase
Telophase

According to my friend, her biology teacher uses Irish Police Men Are Thick.

Gloom

degausserxo wrote: »

According to my friend, her biology teacher uses Irish Police Men Are Thick.

Lol, Nice.

Delta Kilo

Physics resistor code:
BBROYGBVGW
Bye Bye Rosie On Ya Go Bon Voyage Great Western

Whenever this would come up, our physics teacher would start laughing because he knew another Mnemonic for it which he said that if he told us he would be sacked. He learned it in College (he went to college in early 70s). So me, being intrigued, went digging for it... and I found it.

I fear that if I post it here I will be kicked off the site forever as it is the most racist (especially as it comes from the 70s, around the time of the oppression).But here it goes:

Black Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victory Garden Walls

Its actually a good memory aid this because black and brown are the first 2 and it is easy mix up the two of them. This way you know black comes first.

SarcasticFairy

The stupidest ones are the ones I always remember.
Like, in first year Irish, we were trying to come up with a way to remember urus/sheimhus and what letters they go on.
They go on, b, c, d, f, g, p, t, (m, s [for sheimhus]) - that sort of just had a bit of a rhythm to it.
Then you matched that up with the urus:
My Granny's Nose Bleeds-Heavily Near Big Dogs.
If you remember the order you say the first letters in, they match up perfectly. It's stupid, but you try coming up with something better for those letters! :pac: I still use it from time to time actually!

I like the one Piste had on her blog about the not forgetting the + c for integration. I'm always doing that! SO I'm going to learn this and hope I remember!

"A student as smart as could be
had to integrate X to the 3
She said “X to the 4, over 4 I am sure”
But was out by a constant of C!"

PurpleFistMixer

Delta Kilo, I am scandalised. (Also are those things for the applied electricity question? I don't remember having to learn that stuff off.)

We

caroline1111 wrote: »

silly old Harry, caught a herring, trawling off america
sin=opp/hyp cos=adj/hyp tan=opp/adj

Soh Cah Toa ... easy =]

Pigwidgeon

some old hens cackle all hours till old age
sin=o/h cos=a/h tan=o/a

or for the stages of mitosis we had
i picked many apples today

Delta Kilo

PurpleFistMixer wrote: »

Delta Kilo, I am scandalised. (Also are those things for the applied electricity question? I don't remember having to learn that stuff off.)

Im not sure about the applied electricity question because we are doing the nuclear physics option. But, it came up while we were doing the normal electricity stuff when we would be building a circuit and this was used to determine the ohms the resistor was set for.

Ginja Ninja

kateos2 wrote: »

some old hens cackle all hours till old age
sin=o/h cos=a/h tan=o/a

or for the stages of mitosis we had
i picked many apples today

here's a really sad one we all laughed at in JC maths one day but none of us have ever forgotten it

"onions have a hot oily arome"
"opposite/hyp adjacent/hyp opposite/adjacent"
"sin cos and tan" and for some reason it is and always has been sin then cos then tan in our school i've never heard it in any other order

EDIT: p.s GLOOM i f*cking love you!!!!!!(in a helpful way)

Des23

I have a few for chemistry...especially those anion tests.
I would kind of do the more imagine an interesting picture etc.
Unfortunatley they are all quite sexually based....It helps me remember them!:P

QueenOfLeon

Des23 wrote: »

I have a few for chemistry...especially those anion tests.
I would kind of do the more imagine an interesting picture etc.
Unfortunatley they are all quite sexually based....It helps me remember them!:P

if theyre too bad to post could ya send them to me? those anion things drive me mad!! pretty plz?!! :D

PurpleFistMixer

Delta Kilo wrote: »

Im not sure about the applied electricity question because we are doing the nuclear physics option. But, it came up while we were doing the normal electricity stuff when we would be building a circuit and this was used to determine the ohms the resistor was set for.

Hm, didn't even know it was on the LC course... I didn't learn it anyway. : p

K4t

There's a load of these for business. Very handy indeed.

Delta Kilo-that mnemonic is treading on a fine line.

Chanandler Bong

Skiiers Often Have / To Order Ambulances / Cos Accidents Happen
SOH TOA CAH

Bit-Fuel-Lube! Die-Ker, naphtha's pet, is gas.

Bitumen
Fuel Oil
Lubricant Oil
Diesel
Kerosene
Naphtha
Petroleum
Gas (LPG)

-ME-

For the major scales in music: Cute (no sharps), Gremlins (one sharp), Desire (two sharps), Affection (three sharps) Eternally (four sharps) and then I use the usual Father Charles Goes Down And Ends Battle to remember the order of the sharps.. A tad convoluted but it works well!

rainbowtrout

degausserxo wrote: »

According to my friend, her biology teacher uses Irish Police Men Are Thick.

I Passed My Agriculture Test (for the ag science students out there!)

Des23 wrote: »

I have a few for chemistry...especially those anion tests.
I would kind of do the more imagine an interesting picture etc.
Unfortunatley they are all quite sexually based....It helps me remember them!:P

I could never remember which was positive and negative for the anode and cathode... until i wrote this across this top of the chapter

Positive Anode Negative Cathode



or for the charges in redox reactions

Positive Oxidation Reduction Negative

Do i have to bold that one? :pac:

Dubs

OILRIG

Oxidation
Is
Loss (of electrons)
Reduction
Is
Gain (of electrons)

mardybumbum

For the modes of the major scale.....
Ionian, Dorian, Phygrian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian

I Dont Play Lame Music Any Longer

candlegrease

Des23 wrote: »

I have a few for chemistry...especially those anion tests.
I would kind of do the more imagine an interesting picture etc.
Unfortunatley they are all quite sexually based....It helps me remember them!:P

PM them to me......help a brother out!

bythewoods

-JammyDodger- wrote: »

Bit-Fuel-Lube! Die-Ker, naphtha's pet, is gas.

Bitumen
Fuel Oil
Lubricant Oil
Diesel
Kerosene
Naphtha
Petroleum
Gas (LPG)

Right (Refinery Gas)
Pal, (Petroleum)
No (Naphtha)
Kickin' (Kerosene)
Dirty (Diesel)
Love (Lubricating Oil)
For (Fuel Oil)
Breakfast (Bitumen)

I have no idea why I remember this. It pains me to admit it :P

LiNgWiStIkZ

Sin= Oh Hell
Cos= Another Hour
Tan= Of Algebra

poppy08

Des23 wrote: »

I have a few for chemistry...especially those anion tests.
I would kind of do the more imagine an interesting picture etc.
Unfortunatley they are all quite sexually based....It helps me remember them!:P

oh oh PM me too! those anion tests can be quite the fiesty little .....things:D

( you know maybe you should start charging for them!)

hunter164

Chanandler Bong wrote: »

Skiiers Often Have / To Order Ambulances / Cos Accidents Happen
SOH TOA CAH

Hastings :L

Dubs

Geography river erosion processes:

SAHA (is) Crap

Solution
Attrition
Hydraulic action
Abrasion

Cavitation

Chanandler Bong

hunter164 wrote: »

Hastings :L

#when he drops the chalk# "im okay everyone dont worry" :L

K4t

Dubs wrote: »

Geography river erosion processes:

SAHA (is) Crap

Solution
Attrition
Hydraulic action
Abrasion

Cavitation

He's not, he's an unreal player but too injury prone!

Dubs

K4t wrote: »

He's not, he's an unreal player but too injury prone!

my teacher is a chelsea fan so what more can you expect