Do you remember any mneumonics that helped you learn things?

Question

I got to know sub orbitals by "sober physicists don't find giraffes hiding in kitchens like mine"

And certain organic acids by "oh my such good apple pie sweet as sugar"

Answer 1

The usual, of course: Roy G. Biv for the spectrum; Mary's violet eyex make john stay up nights. [period] for the planets. Because of Tombaugh we added the [period], and now it's removed.
DACGT (meaningless) for DNA, CUGAR (almost a word) for RNA.
WIKN for a series of ice ages (also meaningless).
For fun, though it's not a mnemonic, Tom Lehrer's "Chemical Elements". StalaCtites are from the Ceiling, stalaGmites from the Ground.
Your question inspired me to Google "mnemonic" and found a slew of sites: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mnemonics,
http://www.netnaut.com/mnemonics.html...

Answer 2

For the spectral classes of main sequence stars:

Oh Be A Fine Girl Kiss Me Right Now = O B A F G K M R N

HTH

Charles

Answer 3

To remember long numbers and phones
1 looks like t
2 n (has two legs)
3 m
4 L looks like L
5 s
6 b
7 r
8 d handwritten d
9 g
0 c
Then, I add vocals and make words and phrases:
Ex: 7215 748 81156
aRe u NuTS oR Lazy? Go GeT ThoSe Books
well, it works for me in Spanish.

Answer 4

King Philip came over from great Spain = kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species

Answer 5

there's a good one for memorizing the digits of pi. you count the number of letters in each word in the sentence:
how I want a drink, alcoholic of course, after the heavy lectures involving quantum mechanics.

Answer 6

I teach my students to sing their organic compounds, light-dependent reactions, 6 kingdom system, natural selection, cell cycle, protein synthesis. Words, but not tunes are at

http://www.carlinvilleschools.net/linke/Biology/songs.htm