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A filament's resistance value varies with temperature. When directly measuring resistance, the filament is off, and at or near room temperature. When the circuit is turned on to measure voltage and current, the filament's temperature will increase and the resistance value will increase. This makes it appear as though Ohm's law is wrong.

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There is no difficulty; your experiment will simply prove that the filament of the lamp doesn't obey Ohm's Law.

When you plot the results of current against voltage for a lamp's filament, obtained from your experiment, the result will be a curved line, indicating that the current is notproportional to voltage (due to a changing resistance). This shows that the filament doesn't obey Ohm's Law. To obey Ohm's Law, the result must be a straight-line graph.

Although the resistance of the lamp can be found at any point along the curve from the ratio of voltage to current (i.e. R = V/I) at that particular point, the lamp does not obey Ohm's Law. Ohm's Law only applies when the ratio of voltage to current remains constant throughout the experiment.

So no difficulty has arisen with your experiment, you have simply proved that Ohm's Law doesn't apply to the lamp filament. Believe your results!!

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