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This Is Your Laugh

This Is Your Laugh is a science 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 This Is Your Laugh rather than just read about it. In short: This is Your Laugh was an Australian television talk show broadcast by 7HD. It was the second Australian television program to be produced exclusively for an HDTV multichannel, the first being The NightCap.

Key takeaways

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

Reference excerpt

This is Your Laugh was an Australian television talk show broadcast by 7HD. It was the second Australian television program to be produced exclusively for an HDTV multichannel, the first being The NightCap. The show began broadcasting on 30 November 2008 on Sunday evenings at 8.30pm, where it aired for nine episodes. It returned on 8.30 Saturday 14 February where another two episodes aired, after which it was moved to a late night timeslot on Tuesday's where the last five episodes of the series aired.

Synopsis The show was hosted by Deal or No Deal and Weekend Sunrise host Andrew O'Keefe who interviews two celebrities who talk about their achievements and their experiences. Some of these experiences are then reenacted comically by a cast of improvisational actors that includes Nicola Parry, Rebecca De Unamuno, Toby Truslove and Daniel Cordeaux. Musician Gep Blake provides music and sound effects. The program's producer was TV comedy veteran Marc Gracie.

Episode list The table below shows the guests of each of the series' sixteen episodes.

References

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with This Is Your Laugh

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what This Is Your Laugh claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In science, 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 This Is Your Laugh 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 This Is Your Laugh 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 This Is Your Laugh

In research: This Is Your Laugh appears in science 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 This Is Your Laugh 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: This Is Your Laugh is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2008 Australian television series debuts, 2009 Australian television series endings, 7HD original programming, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for This Is Your Laugh 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 This Is Your Laugh in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what This Is Your Laugh 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 This Is Your Laugh out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is This Is Your Laugh in simple terms?

Why does This Is Your Laugh matter?

Because it connects several science 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 This Is Your Laugh?

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 This Is Your Laugh.