List of Mnemonics - Physics

Physics

  • "Richard of York gave battle in vain" to remember the colours in order in a rainbow (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet).
  • The fictitious name Roy G. Biv is also used to remember the order of the colours of the rainbow.
  • Microwave frequency bands
Mnemonic for microwave frequency bands in the increasing wave lengths (decreasing frequencies), which are Ku band, X band, C band, S band, L band, respectively is given by,

"King Xerxes Can Seduce Lovely Princesses"

  • The phrase "We guarantee certainty, clearly referring to this light mnemonic." represents the speed of light in meters per second through the number of letters in each word: 299,792,458.

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Famous quotes containing the word physics:

    “Although philosophers generally believe in laws and deny causes, explanatory practice in physics is just the reverse.”
    —Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)

    “The fundamental laws of physics do not describe true facts about reality. Rendered as descriptions of facts, they are false; amended to be true, they lose their explanatory force.”
    —Nancy Cartwright (b. 1945)

    “We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
    —Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)