Mnemonic devices.... post 'em!

[pokerfan]

ELI the ICE man
(Voltage leads current in an inductor; Current leads voltage in a capacitor. This assumes of course that you already knew that L is inductance, E is voltage and I is current.)

HOMES
(The names of the great lakes)

How I need a drink, alcoholic in nature, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics
(The first fifteen digits of Pi)

[southpaw]

1. King Philip Came Over From Great Spain

Taxonomy

[WinkyDink]

5. I could've used this 40 years ago! :)

[pokerfan]

8. King Philip Came Over For Good Sex

is the way I learned it.

[XemaSab]

27. Kinky people can often find good sex

:D

[TZ]

2. ROY G BIV

Colors of the spectrum

[Dr. Strange]

3. My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us.

Had to be updated, what with Pluto being kicked out of the club.

[southpaw]

4. And what of Neptune?

Maybe:

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Noodles?

[pokerfan]

6. Nipples?

:hide:

[southpaw]

7. Sick

Unless you're an infant with a twin. Then it's OK as long as Mrs. Smarty-pants doesn't do it at the Olive Garden.

[pokerfan]

10. but memorable, which is the point

and it's already a sex thread.

[Dr. Strange]

13. Which point is that again?

I'll be needing a pic for this.

[pokerfan]

15. OK......

[Dr. Strange]

11. Dammit! Forgot the Nine!

My Very Educated Mother Just Served Us Nine.

[KitchenWitch]

9. ...

Hi d Ho, Ho d Hi over HoHo

[Dr. Strange]

14. I had more trouble remembering that ditty...

than the actual quotient rule itself. :blush:

[KitchenWitch]

20. LOL - Here is a graphic you may like!

[Dr. Strange]

22. What the hell?

The integral is missing a "dx", I don't see any arbitrary constant on the right, what function is "u" supposed to represent, and what is "n"? That problem has been butchered!

[KitchenWitch]

24. Nice post, Newton!

:P

[IndianaJones]

12. sohcahtoa. nt.

[pokerfan]

16. Every Good Boy Deserves Favour

[southpaw]

17. I Learned it as

Every Good Boy Does Fine

and later

Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge


Mmmmmm... fudge

[pokerfan]

19. I never learned it

but I remember the Moody Blues album by that name.

[Dr. Strange]

18. and Good Boys Do Fine Always...

if you're below middle C.

[Reverend_Smitty]

21. Some lovers try positions that they can't handle.

the carpal bones in the wrist (Scaphoid, lunate, triquetral, psisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate)

[pokerfan]

23. Which months have 31 days?

My Mom thought this was retarded cause she learned the rhyme:

[mainegreen]

29. I prefer the knuckle method.

[TommyO]

50. Same here, it's better than a silly rhyme that I can't remember.

[racaulk]

25. Two math-related mnemonics

Please Excuse My Dear Aunty Sally
PEMDAS, for the Order of Operations in arithmetic: Parenthesis, Exponents, Multiplication, Division, Addition, and Subtraction.

A Rat In Tom's House May Eat Tom's Ice Cream
An easy way to remember how to spell arithmetic.

:hi:

[pokerfan]

26. I make up my own mneumonics all the time

Like phone numbers. Say the number is 428-1475. You start off by memorizing the 4, which is pretty easy. Then you multiply that by the second number (2) to get the third number (8). To get the next two numbers (14), just add the first three numbers together (4+2+8=14). To get the next number (7), simply add all the previous numbers together (4+2+8+1+4=19), add the first two numbers again (19+4+2=25), subtract the second two numbers (25-8-1=16), and add the digits of the result together (1+6=7). From there, getting the final number (5) is child's play. Add all the previous numbers together (4+2+8+1+4+7=26), double it, (26x2=52), subtract the number of numbers before the hyphen (52-3=49), take the square root (Ã of 49 = 7), add the total of the previous numbers again (7+26=33), multiply that by one of its own digits (33x3=99), add 1 for the hell of it (99+1=100), then consider that 5, the last number, goes into 100 an even number of times, therefore the last number must be 5.

(stolen from the web)

[Ysabel]

42. wow help...

wow help...

(whoa oh woe how exquisitely lovely pokerfan)...

[callous taoboy]

48. Good one!

[XemaSab]

28. OIL RIG

Oxidation is loss; reduction is gain.

I don't have any good ones for the order of reduction, the state factors of soil formation, or the glacial/interglacial sequences. :(

[SPKrazy]

30. In school I used them now

I have one for me. CLASS Creative Lovable Attractive Sexy Smart :-D

[Iggo]

31. I Dig People Like My Aunt Lori.

Made that one up myself. It's the modes of a scale in western music.

Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, Locrian.

[tonkatoy57]

40. Beat me to it

Mine, from freshman music theory was

In Death People Live Mainly Alone

[Iggo]

45. Nice!

I suppose if I ever took a class I'd know that one!

:rofl: @ Me

[SPQR]

32. Wasp Leg

for the 7 deadly sins

Wrath
Avarice
Sloth
Pride

Lust
Envy
Gluttony

I had a book of mnemonics once. The only two I remember are Wasp Leg and this little ditty:

"How odd of God
To choose the Jews"

Supposedly to help you remember that the Jews are the chosen people. That'll give you an idea
how crappy that book was.

[Lyric]

33. Is Patty Mad At Tommy?

Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase, Telophase.

[MicaelS]

34. Southern California's Going Ape

Conductors in order of greatest conductivity

Silver
Copper
Gold
Aluminum

[Redstone]

35. I used to know some, but I've forgotten them.

Redstone

[One_Life_To_Give]

36. Only New Reels Catch Fish So Purchase Some Often

COLREGS order of precedence for Stand-on, give way in a crosing situation

Overtaken
Not Under Command
Restricted in Ability to Maneuver
Constrained by Draft (International Only)
Fishing (By Nets or Trawls)
Sailing
Power
Seaplane
Overtaking

[Kutjara]

37. Oh Be A Fine Girl, Kiss Me.

The main sequence of stars. Our sun is a G-type.

[Symarip]

38. No one is going to like this one

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls Behind Victorian Garden Walls... Get Some Now

The first letter of the first ten word represents the color bands on a resistor and is representative of a number and/or the multiplier. The first letter of the last three words represents colors that represent tolerance of the resistor's rating. Here are the colors:

Black
Brown
Red
Orange
Green
Blue
Violet
Gray
Wite

Gold
Silver
Nickel

Crude? Yes. But the fact I learned that over ten years ago and have never, ever forgotten it amazes.

[volstork]

39. Oh, Oh, Oh, To Touch And Feel A Girl's Vagina-- Ah! Heaven!

Names of the 12 Cranial Nerves:

Olfactory
Optic
Oculomotor
Trochlear
Trigeminal
Abducens
Facial
Vestibulochochlear
Glossopharyngeal
Vagus
Accessory
Hypoglossal

[MsKandice01]

41. HAHAHAHAHA...

I'm gonna have to tell that one to my husband since he's studying for his RN right now.

[volstork]

43. Here's another

to remember what type of information each of the cranial nerves carries (motor, sensory, or both)

Some Say Marry Money, But My Brother Says Big Boobs Matter More

[Crabby Appleton]

44. Please Do Not Throw Sausage Pizza Away

The 7 Layers of the OSI Reference Model - data networking

Physical Layer (Layer 1)
Data Link Layer (Layer 2)
Network Layer (Layer 3)
Transport Layer (Layer 4)
Session Layer (Layer 5)
Presentation Layer (Layer 6)
Application Layer (Layer 7)

[ProdigalJunkMail]

47. All People Seem To Need Data Processing

now...make some money on your know it all friends...What is the name for the address at the physical layer???

sP

[SemiCharmedQuark]

46. Two from math class

All Students Take Crack

To remember which functions are positive in which quadrants: All, Sine, Tan, Cos

Your Sin is X Rated So Why Ax?

To remember the trig functions

Your=y/r=Sin function

X-rated=x/r=Cos function

Why Ax=y/x= Tan Function

[callous taoboy]

49. Never eat sour watermelon

Directions on the compass rose. Handy for third graders!

[Sentath]

51. Binder order in telephone cable

Blue     \ \
Orange   | |
Green    | |
Brown    | |---Telephony wire order
Slate    | |
White    | |
Red      | |
Black    | |
Yellow   | |
Violet   | /
Rose     |-----Fiber order
Aqua     /

And the only mnemonic anyone around me had was for the binder
order (first half is usually used for individual wires and the
second for groups called binders) "we rape beautiful
young virgins".  Which just might tell you A LOT about
the nature of that company.

[backscatter712]

52. One from electronics

To remember the color codes for resistors:

Bad Boys Rape Our Young Girls But Violet Gives Willingly.

I know, it's sexist and sick and wrong... :evilgrin:

[SOteric]

53. Jesus Christ Made Seattle Under Protest

For the streets of downtown Seattle from Yesler to the Market:

Jefferson
James
Cherry
Columbia
Marion
Madison
Spring
Seneca
University
Union
Pike
Pine