A filament bulb resistor is the common type of light bulb. It contain a thin coil wire called filament. It produces light as a result. It is made mainly from the element tungsten. The metle tungsten has very high melting point and it is a good conductor of electric current
The current supplied to the filament for heating is defined as the Filament current. whereas When the filament is heated to a high temperature, the electrons are emitted. The flow of electrons form Cathode to anode is the tube Current.
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General purpose resistor is used to resist the current flow.the common resister is general purpose resister.
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An LDR is a Light dependent resistor.
It is the filament.
The light glows because of the hot Filament.
the wire in your light bulb is a resistor :)
A device that uses a resistor to transform electrical energy into light and heat is an incandescent light bulb. The resistor, also known as a filament, has high resistance, which causes it to heat up and emit light as a result of the electrical current passing through it.
Most simple incandescent light bulbs are made of a thin section of tungsten through which the current flows. This section of tungsten is called a "filament". The tungsten filament has electrical resistance and so is a resistor. As a resistor it develops a voltage drop. This voltage drop multiplied by the amperage passing through it equals the wattage of the bulb. The heated tungsten gets to thousands of degrees above room temperature and becomes hot enough to produce yellow-white visible light. As a resistor, the tungsten light bulb has a positive resistance coefficient. This means that the electrical resistance goes up when the filament becomes hot. For example, a 100 watt light bulb operated at 120 volts - it does not matter if it is AC or DC for this calculation - will have a resistance of 144 ohms when hot and draw .833 ampere. When cold the filament typically has a resistance of only 10 ohms which increases as the filament heats up.
In some circumstances a filament bulb is used as a variable resistor. As the filament heats up, its resistance increases. This effect is used in some automatic gain control circuits; as the signal level increases, the changing resistance of the bulb can modify the feedback level in order to hold the level constant.
Because the filament is in effect a resistor. Copper is too good a conductor to provide resistance to the current, and would simply allow the current to complete the circuit. The light is generated by the filament glowing as it heats up in resistance to the current. Tungsten is a much better resistor.
The filament in a light bulb works by converting electrical energy into light and heat. When electricity flows through the filament, it heats up due to resistance in the material, causing it to emit light. The filament is typically made of tungsten because of its high melting point and durability.
The filament current of an x-ray tube is primarily controlled by a filament transformer, which adjusts the voltage and current supplied to the filament. Additionally, a rheostat or variable resistor may be used to fine-tune the filament current for optimal electron emission. In modern systems, electronic control circuits can also regulate the filament current more precisely, ensuring consistent performance and improved image quality. These devices work together to ensure the correct heating of the filament, enabling effective x-ray production.
In an 'old fashioned' incandescent light bulb, the only electrical part inside is the filament wire itself. When you put a meter across a cold bulb and measure the resistance, you're measuring the resistance of the filament. More modern and more efficient artificial light sources, like fluorescent tubes, LED lights and CFLs, have additional electronic components inside the structure of the bulb.
The filament of a light bulb isn't like a resistor ... it is a resistor. The only difference from the ones on circuit boards is the it's designed to operate at a much higher temperature. So hot that it glows. The glass envelope is there to prevent oxygen from getting in and promptly burning it. When the filament becomes too hot it breaks breaking the current that was lighting it in the first place. That is why the light bulb "burns" out.
It is a conductor, but the filament is a resistor : as current flows through the filament, some of the energy is released as heat and light.