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When's Your Birthday?

When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? rather than just read about it. In short: When's Your Birthday? is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown.

Key takeaways

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

Reference excerpt

When's Your Birthday? is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown. While original prints of this film had a cartoon sequence in Technicolor directed by Bob Clampett and produced by Leon Schlesinger, most surviving prints (including the Internet Archive) have the sequence in black-and-white. The film's copyright was not renewed, and it is in the public domain.

Plot

Dustin Willoughby is a prizefighter and believer in astrology who only wins when the stars are in alignment.

Cast Joe E. Brown as Dustin Willoughby Marian Marsh as Jerry Grant Fred Keating as Larry Burke Edgar Kennedy as Mr. Henry Basscombe Maude Eburne as Mrs. Fanny Basscombe Suzanne Kaaren as Diane Basscombe Margaret Hamilton as Mossy - the Maid Minor Watson as James J. Regan Frank Jenks as Lefty - Regan's Henchman Don Rowan - Steve as Regan's Henchman Granville Bates as Judge O'Day Charles Judels as Acropolis, the Headwaiter Corky as Zodiac, the Dog

Soundtrack "Toreador Song" from Carmen by Georges Bizet William Tell Overture by Gioachino Rossini Happy Birthday to You by Mildred J. Hill and Patty Hill Ruth Robin with Manny Harmon and His Orchestra – I Love You from Coast to Coast, music and lyrics by Albert Stillman, Alex Hyde and Basil Adlam Sobre las Olas (Over the Waves) by Juventino Rosas Stars and Stripes Forever by John Philip Sousa When the Moon Comes over the Mountain, music and lyrics by Kate Smith, Howard Johnson and Harry M. Woods

References

External links When's Your Birthday? at IMDb When's Your Birthday? is available for free viewing and download at the Internet Archive

Illustrations

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with When's Your Birthday?

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday?

In research: When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? 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: When's Your Birthday? is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1930s romantic comedy film stubs, 1930s sports comedy films, 1937 American films, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday? out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is When's Your Birthday? in simple terms?

When's Your Birthday? is a 1937 American romantic comedy film directed by Harry Beaumont and starring Joe E. Brown.

Why does When's Your Birthday? 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 When's Your Birthday??

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 When's Your Birthday?.