Mnemonics.

[derrynoose]

At school we learned ' I wished to go TOA dance SOH I took a CAH' as a mnemonic for the sine, cosine, and tan ratios.Did anyone use any other mnemonic for these ratios?
What mnemonics would you have used for other topics?

[weeal]

ehm I forget, soz

lol

[Docsteve]

Smiles Of Happiness Come After Having Tankards Of Ale
for ratios and a good time.

The Girls Can Flirt And Other Queer Things Can Do
- ten materials in increasing hardness in Moh's scale
(Talc, Gypsum, Fluorite, Apatite, Orthoclase (feldspar), Quartz, Topaz, Corundum and Diamond)

Where would we be without mnemonics!!

[Docsteve]

Sorry, I missed calcite at No.3 in that last one.

[derrynoose]

Hope you were an adult student when you were learning your ratios,docsteve!

[beryllium]

I used mnemonics for the periodic table

Hy Hello Little Beggar Boys Can Not Over Fly Near

Hydrogen Helium Lithium Beryllium Boron Carbon Nitrogen
Oxygen Flourine Neon

[gen2]

Some Old Horses . Can't Always Hear . Their Oats Arriving .

[gen2]

and we used:
I PROPose MEeTing ANnA Tonight

for the stages of Mitosis:
Interphase, Prophase, Metaphase, Anaphase Telophase

[gen2]

Please Send Little Charlie McLean A Zebra If The Lean Horse Cannot Munch Sweet Grass Pleasantly

for the reactivity series of metals.

Porassium
Sodium
Lithium
Calcium
Magnesium
Aluminium
Zinc
Iron
Tin
Lead
Hydrogen
Copper
Mercury
Silver
Gold
Platinum

[riskman]

Men Very Easily Make Jars Stand UnderNeath Pots - the order of the planets from the sun:
Mercury Venus Earth Mars Jupiter Saturn Uranus Neptune Pluto

[theprof]

The senior maths teacher at my secondary school was a right disciplinarian, which probably explains why the following is permanently etched in my mind.

Olga Has A Hatred Of Algebra

Taking the initial letters, O/H = Sine, A/H = Cosine, O/A = Tangent.

I shudder at the thought of it now!

[theprof]

Before the wife and I opened this bottle of port, I was a bit reluctant about posting some of the more vulgar biochemistry mnemonics. Anyway, throwing caution to the wind, here's one of the cleaner ones she suggested.

The Urea Cycle:

Ordinarily Careless Cr@ppers Are Also Frivolous About Urination.

Orinthine Carbomyl Citrulline Asparate Arginosuccinate Fumarate Arginine Urea.

[sddsddean]

My geography teacher gave us Assistant Scout Master for the 3 prarie states of Canada; Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Not a lot of use, but I'll never forget it!

[oculist]

On Old Owen's Tree Top A Fat And Greedy Vulture Ate Hungrily.
The twelve cranial nerves.
Olfactory, Optic, Oculomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facial, Auditory, Glosso-pharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory, Hypoglossal.

[nightmare]

mnemonic for decimal expansioon of pi:
How I like a drink (alcoholic, of course) after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.

word lengths 3,1,4,1,5,9,2,6,5,3,5,8,9,7,9