That’s what I was about to say!
I remember how to spell principal (as opposed to principle) because the principal is your pal.
A useful reminder that not all distributions are normal:
The overwhelming majority of people have greater than the average number of legs.
Think about it.
“I” before “E”,
Except after “C”,
Or when sound is long “A”
As in “neighbor” or “weigh”
None of which helps a bit
with weird words like “counterfeit.”
I can sing both the Animaniacs song “Countries of the World” and “The 50 US states and their capitals”. Still learning the “Presidents of the US” song though
4th grade teacher - “There is a rat in separate”.
Not a joke, but I learned the order of the planets (as did many of us) with the sentence My Very Enchanting Mother Just Served Us Nine Pizzas. The sentence doesn’t account for Planet X, though.
“Fifty Nifty United States” whenever I have to alphabetize a list of states or make sure that I’ve named them all.
Me, too, although I’m not sure that need has ever actually come up.
My HS Chemistry teacher taught me that
“Most European People Bake Potatoes Hot Hot in October, November, December”
Methane, Ethane, Propane, Butane, Pentane, Hexane, Heptane, Octane, Nonane, Decane.
35+ years later, I have no idea why I still remember this.
And I didn’t remember them until Stephen Colbert made a comment about the Pluto disenplanetization:
“My Very Educated Mother Just Said, ‘Uh-oh! No Pluto!’”
As long as we’re on mnemonics, I will add “King Philip Can Order Fairly Good Suppers”–Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
Also, my kindergarten teacher was incredibly helpful when she told us all “The hand you write with is your right hand!!”
Except for the only lefty in your class, lady. Thanks a lot.
What’s new?
Frequency x wavelength.
[nu=freq x wavelength also hits off of whats new? an animal in africa{gnu}]
<Wavelength lambda and frequency f are connected by the speed c of the medium.
c can be air = 343 m/s at 20 degrees celsius or water at 0 dgrees = 1450 m/s.
c can be light waves or electromagnetic waves = 299 792 458 m/s.
The formulas are:
c = lambda x f - That is frequency times wavelength.
f = c / lambda
lambda = c / f
frequency is nu so the equation is actually c= lamda x nu>
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As long as we’re on mnemonics, I will add “King Philip Can Order Fairly Good Suppers”–Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species.
My anatomy and physiology prof taugt us:
“Kittens Playing Checkers on Frogs Going Swimming.”
It’s so nonsensical that you’d think I’d have forgotten it but it was accompanied by a hilarious handdrawn image (the kittens and the frogs looked suspiciously similar) that it has stuck with me.
On a more obscure note, no one knows the origin of the order of the letters used to mark the points on a dressage arena. Beginning at the bottom of the court, in the middle of the short side and proceeding clockwise: A, K, E, H, C, M, B, F. We remember the order by All King Edward’s Horses Can Make Big Fools. Now that’s not something you’ll learn everyday!
Oh, and something we came up with in my high-school music theory class for the circle of fifths: Cool Girls Don’t Ask Excited Boys For Cookies.
I learned their Presidents song while studying for Jeopardy. Of course I got the only Jeopardy game in, like, ever where there weren’t any presidents.
Yep, me too!
I wish I could say that I could remember the circulatory facts from Potsie’s “Pump Your Blood” song from “Happy Days,” but all I’ve retained is the (very earwormy) chorus after all these years.
Haha! Thanks…I think! 