Lynne Kelly is a melbourne academic and a woman.

Unnecessary additional info.

No matter you are a hobbyist or a future professional expecting to learn (memorize?) things of certain complexity using mnemonics is a waste of time. Understanding the basics is much more productive.

 

Hello,

I always say, you do not have to know everyting, if you know where to find it.

For information on components, you could have a look at the following pages of the EDUCYPEDIA:
Batteries
Buzzers
Capacitors
Chip packaging technology
Coils
Components
Crystals
DIAC
Diodes
Diode types
EMC-EMI filters
Heat Sinks
IC identification
JFET
Mosfet's
Peltier
Photo diode
Phototransistor technology
Photovoltaic systems
Processing
Relays
Resistors
Resistor: Linear
Resistor: Nonlinear
RF transformers
Semiconductors
Solar cells
Switches
TFT technology
Thermoelectric cooling
Thyristor
Transformers
Transformer types
Transistor
Triac
UJT
Varistors

For data on electronics etc. , have a look here:
Audio data
AWG conversion
Barcode
Calculators
Capacitor codes
Constants and tables
Databank - tables
Datasheets
Formulas
Inductor codes
IP ratings
Keyboard codes
Resistor color code
RF data
Schematic symbols
Science symbols-codes
SMD codes
Transistor codes
Units & constants

Bertus

 

Unnecessary additional info.

No matter you are a hobbyist or a future professional expecting to learn (memorize?) things of certain complexity using mnemonics is a waste of time. Understanding the basics is much more productive.

thankyou for your encouraging remarks @atferrari perhaps you missed my last paragraph
it went like this

"Before the purists yell, I am not trying to replace real understanding with rote learning - merely trying to help my brain assimilate all this new information I am trying to understand as I teach myself electronics."
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summary aid-de-memoir is a proven augmentation to effective understanding as a means of entrenching memory. so is learning by association, eg https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...ells-how-smell-triggers-memories-and-emotions

and as the author i quoted explains in her book, humans have relied on this method of remembering facts by association since time began for the species - 99.9% of which (literally) was before written records.

mine is a serious question worthy of serious response or none at all

 

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Rat
In
The
House
Might
Eat
The
Ice
Cream

ak

 

A
Rat
In
The
House
Might
Eat
The
Ice
Cream

ak

Hmmm I don't think I need assistance with spelling that word only doing it AK. But, um, thanks

 

thankyou for your encouraging remarks @atferrari perhaps you missed my last paragraph
it went like this

"Before the purists yell, I am not trying to replace real understanding with rote learning - merely trying to help my brain assimilate all this new information I am trying to understand as I teach myself electronics."
​

summary aid-de-memoir is a proven augmentation to effective understanding as a means of entrenching memory. so is learning by association, eg https://www.psychologytoday.com/blo...ells-how-smell-triggers-memories-and-emotions

and as the author i quoted explains in her book, humans have relied on this method of remembering facts by association since time began for the species - 99.9% of which (literally) was before written records.

mine is a serious question worthy of serious response or none at all

Honestly I do not suffer if you find my reply not serious. It was.

The task in question, understanding the basics of electronics by associating facts to minimalistic poetry (?!) is a waste of time. Being now more in the way out stage of life I have clear that time is the asset that you are free to spend; it is yours, but do not expect to get back what you wasted.

Few hours of reading and some associated practice of any basic concept with notes duly taken will help to grasp it more than poems or sonets. That is what I do and it basically works. But that is me.

I hope the next surgeon you meet at the quirophan will not suffer a memory lapsus precisely there...

Stopping here.

 

Honestly I do not suffer if you find my reply not serious. It was.

The task in question, understanding the basics of electronics by associating facts to minimalistic poetry (?!) is a waste of time. Being now more in the way out stage of life I have clear that time is the asset that you are free to spend; it is yours, but do not expect to get back what you wasted.

Few hours of reading and some associated practice of any basic concept with notes duly taken will help to grasp it more than poems or sonets. That is what I do and it basically works. But that is me.

I hope the next surgeon you meet at the quirophan will not suffer a memory lapsus precisely there...

Stopping here.

Yes stopping here

 

Hello,

I always say, you do not have to know everyting, if you know where to find it.

For information on components, you could have a look at the following pages of the EDUCYPEDIA:
Batteries
Buzzers
Capacitors
Chip packaging technology
Coils
Components
Crystals
DIAC
Diodes
Diode types
EMC-EMI filters
Heat Sinks
IC identification
JFET
Mosfet's
Peltier
Photo diode
Phototransistor technology
Photovoltaic systems
Processing
Relays
Resistors
Resistor: Linear
Resistor: Nonlinear
RF transformers
Semiconductors
Solar cells
Switches
TFT technology
Thermoelectric cooling
Thyristor
Transformers
Transformer types
Transistor
Triac
UJT
Varistors

For data on electronics etc. , have a look here:
Audio data
AWG conversion
Barcode
Calculators
Capacitor codes
Constants and tables
Databank - tables
Datasheets
Formulas
Inductor codes
IP ratings
Keyboard codes
Resistor color code
RF data
Schematic symbols
Science symbols-codes
SMD codes
Transistor codes
Units & constants

Bertus

Wow bertus what a wide and deep resource. That's fantastic. Thankyou

 

I have two mnemonics to add, I believe they both independently popped into my mind a long time ago.

For TO-3 transistors (probably near obsolete by now): Hold the device in your hand with the leads pointing up with the shorter side towards you. Now think of this as a baseball field, with home plate being the mounting home. Now run to first BASE.

For diodes, spell cathode with a K. One side of the diode symbol IS a letter K, and that is the Cathode. To my eyes the other side looks like the letter A (albeit with the legs cut short) and that is the Anode

 

I have two mnemonics to add, I believe they both independently popped into my mind a long time ago.

For TO-3 transistors (probably near obsolete by now): Hold the device in your hand with the leads pointing up with the shorter side towards you. Now think of this as a baseball field, with home plate being the mounting home. Now run to first BASE.

For diodes, spell cathode with a K. One side of the diode symbol IS a letter K, and that is the Cathode. To my eyes the other side looks like the letter A (albeit with the legs cut short) and that is the Anode

Thankyou Ernie. Cute. I will use those.

 

Maybe this will help?

 

When exciting an inductor with AC, the phase of the voltage leads the phase of the current, or the phase of the current lags the phase of the voltage.

When exciting a capacitor with AC, the phase of the current leads the phase of the voltage, or the phase of the voltage lags the phase of the current.

ELI the ICE man.

ak

 

Maybe this will help?

Outstanding.

ak

 

Maybe this will help?

What?

 

When exciting an inductor with AC, the phase of the voltage leads the phase of the current, or the phase of the current lags the phase of the voltage.

When exciting a capacitor with AC, the phase of the current leads the phase of the voltage, or the phase of the voltage lags the phase of the current.

ELI the ICE man.

ak

Thanks AK. I will one day know what this means and I will use the poem

 

Know the one for resister color?
Bad boys ravage our young girls but violet gives willingly.
Black Brown Red Orange YellowGreen Blue Violet Grey White
Easy as 0123456789
Did you know color blindness is usually linked to the Y chromosome.? Women usually have better color vision.

 

Another for resistor color code. Came across it today while I was Googling for other phrases...

U. of Minn. Society for Women Engineers:
By Becoming Revolutionary Orators, Young Girls Become Very Great Women,

 

I remember that 8*8=64 and 64-8=56 . I also remember that 5*8=40 and 2*8=16 that combined 40+16=56 . I used remember the 0-10 multiplication table when I was 8 or 9 but nowadays I just remember those that I use frequently so I just go from there... About the resitor colour code I have it on the computer, my phone and in my binder so I've never really needed to memorize them

 

@Mellisa_K: Lynne Kelly is a Melbourne academic and a woman.
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I remember that 8*8=64 and 64-8=56 . I also remember that 5*8=40 and 2*8=16 that combined 40+16=56 . I used remember the 0-10 multiplication table when I was 8 or 9 but nowadays I just remember those that I use frequently so I just go from there...

I memorized the multiplication tables up to 12 in the 4th grade, it was on the folder I carried papers in, so I don't need any mnemonics to help me remember them.

I used a mnemonic for the resistor color code at first because the order was random and made no sense. Once I memorized the values associated with colors, I no longer needed the mnemonic.

I know some people who need to say their ABC's to figure out letter order. It's painful to listen to someone singing the ABC song to figure out the letter before or after a certain letter...

Some things must be memorized because there is no way to derive their meaning, name, etc.