List of Mnemonics - Engineering

Engineering

• Color code for Resistor

See also: List of electronic color code mnemonics

Big brown rabbits often yield great big vocal groans when gingerly slapped

Bad boys run our young girls behind victory garden walls (bad → black, boys → brown, but → blue)

for the colors Black, Brown, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet, Grey, White, Gold, Silver respectively

• For EIA electronic color code: Bad beer rots our young guts but vodka goes well – get some now Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2), Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5), Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8), White(9), Gold(5%), Silver(10%), None(20%)
• Another way to remember electronic color code: B.B.ROY of Great Britain has Very Good Wife wearing Gold and Silver Necklace that represents Black(0), Brown(1), Red(2), Orange(3), Yellow(4), Green(5), Blue(6), Violet(7), Gray(8), White(9), Gold(5%), Silver(10%), None(20%)

• A mnemonic to remember which way to turn common (right-handed) screws and nuts, including light bulbs, is "Righty tighty, lefty loosey"; another is "right on, left off"