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Binary Number System

Learning the Binary Code System couldn’t be easier with the system you are about to read.
Typically when trying to convert binary into numbers people refer to a chart of some sort to get their numbers. From now on you will be able to convert numbers into Binary and Binary into […]

Converting Kilometres to Miles

This is a useful method for when travelling between imperial and metric countries and
need to know what kilometres to miles are.
The formula to convert kilometres to miles is number of (kilometres / 8 ) X 5
So lets try 80 kilometres into miles
80/8 = 10
multiplied by 5 is 50 miles!
Another example
40 kilometres
40 / 8 = 5
5 […]

Converting Kilos to pounds

Let’s start off with looking at converting Kilos to pounds. 86 kilos into pounds:
Step one, multiply the kilos by TWO.
To do this, just double the kilos.
86 x 2 = 172
Step two, divide the answer by ten.
To do this, just put a decimal point one place in from the right.
172 / 10 = 17.2
Step three, add […]

Stalagmite or Stalagtite?

When I was in geography class my teacher taught me how to remember which one forms from the ceiling and from the floor.
Stalagmites and stalactites form from travertine; water that has a high calcium carbonate content and other minerals in it.
Stalactites form from the ceiling and hang down. To remember this, I think about the […]

Trigonometry Rules

We can all use log tables to look up these rules, but I am going to show you one method that will hopefully speed up your trigonometry.
Sin, Opposite, Hypotenuse, Tan, Adjacent, Cos.
There are several methods to remember this, when I was in school my maths teacher said it like this:
So, tow a car!
SOH (So) […]

Memorize Ohm’s Law

Virgins Are Rare

Volts = Amps X Resistance

Memorize the 12 pairs of Cranial Nerves

This is a meumonic to remember the 12 pairs of cranial nerves :
On Old Olympus Towering Top, A French And German Viewed A Hop =
Olfactory, Optic, Occulomotor, Trochlear, Trigeminal, Abducens, Facil, Auditory, Glossopharyngeal, Vagus, Accessory and Hypoglossal…
Now out of these how do you remember how many are sensory, how many are mixed and how many […]

Phone Book Trick

Certainly, you can use the memory techniques from here to memorize the phone book, but why? How many times can you really show that?
This trick will imply that you’ve memorized the phone book.
Imagine this: You hand out 9 cards or slips of paper, each with a different digit from 1 to 9, and ask your […]

Memorizing notes on a Staff

on the lines of a g staff you have the notes
-f
-d
-b
-g
-e
which can be formed from bottom to top into the sentence Every Good Boy Does Fine
The notes between the lines form from bottom to top the word face
That’s for treble clef. I use (for lines, working from bottom) Every Green Bus Drives Fast and […]

Maths and Physics

Need help with The distance, speed, time stuff?? this is good

Dads
Silly Triangle

Distance= speed x time
Speed= distance/time
Time= distance/speed
Cover the part of the […]