astronomy

My Demons

My Demons is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand My Demons rather than just read about it. In short: "My Demons" is a single by American rock band Starset, the first off of their debut studio album Transmissions. Initially released in 2013, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2014.

Key takeaways

My Demons belongs to astronomy; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect My Demons to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of My Demons from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

"My Demons" is a single by American rock band Starset, the first off of their debut studio album Transmissions. Initially released in 2013, it peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2014.

Composition and themes The song has been described as an edgy, hard rock song with "boisterous" guitar and bass and a "catchy chorus". AllMusic described the song as having "dramatic style...electronic elements, strings, heavy alternative rock, and more mysterious samples than an entire season of X-Files." Converse to its layered and complicated studio composition, the band sometimes plays a stripped down acoustic version of the song live as well. Frontman Dustin Bates described the song's lyrical premise as "downtrodden protagonist superhero gains power from love interest", similar to something seen as in the 2008 and onward Iron Man films between Tony Stark and Pepper Potts. Conversely, the song's music video was inspired and influenced by an account Bates had read on Nikola Tesla, in which Tesla states he encountered an extraterrestrial signal in 1901. It was directed by Denver Cavins.

Reception Commercially, the song peaked at number 5 on the Billboard US Mainstream Rock Songs chart in 2014. The song also spent 41 weeks on the chart, more than any other song on the chart that year, or in the chart's history, dating back to its beginning in 1981. The song had accumulated over 73,000 downloads as of September 2014. Outside of the traditional music charts, Billboard magazine also specifically noted its strong performance on music streaming websites. The song was an especially successful song on YouTube, with the track receiving 285.4 million views between September 2014 and November 2016. For context, Billboard noted that the most viewed videos of two other extremely popular modern rock bands, "Uprising" by Muse and "The Pretender" by the Foo Fighters, only had 81 million and 143 million views, respectively. The song's performance on Spotify was also noted, with it receiving over 30 million streams as of April 2017.

Personnel Dustin Bates – lead vocals, rhythm guitar Brock Richards – lead guitar Ron DeChant – bass Adam Gilbert – drums

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with My Demons

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what My Demons claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to My Demons before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about My Demons ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of My Demons

In research: My Demons appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses My Demons in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: My Demons is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2013 singles, 2013 songs, Cultural depictions of Nikola Tesla, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for My Demons outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study My Demons in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what My Demons means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain My Demons out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is My Demons in simple terms?

Why does My Demons matter?

Because it connects several astronomy ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study My Demons?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on My Demons.