Hi,
I've been working on memorizing the periodic table. Anyway I started with the first three elements last night, or well more information about the first two than the third but still...
Anyway I couldn't remember the atomic weight of helium, so I decided to use the
pegging method I've been reading about to try to memorize it.
It really did work. I have to work on the art of creating really silly pictures, but I think mine was silly enough. And now I know that the atomic weight of helium is 4.0026024.
It was rather easy, too, because after the first few times of having to go through the pictures, now I remember it without much thought at all.
Just wanted to share. I think I'll be using this quite frequently now.
Hmm, I wonder though, how the picture scene can be tied into the actual thing being memorized. For example, I had nothing about atomic weight in my picture scene, so if I had a lot of them, I might not remember what it stood for. How can this be resolved, I wonder? The first picture was a very large rose, so I don't know how atomic weight can be related to that lol.