Resistance of a Filament Lamp

• Filament lamp


  A lamp that has a very fine wire filament that gets extremely hot when an electric current passes through it, causing it to glow and give out light
• Experiment with filament lamp

  1. Change potential difference

  2. Measure current
• Current through a filament lamp

  Not directly proportional to potential difference
• Filament lamp


  • Resistance increases at high temperature
  • Atoms in filament vibrate more, causing electrons in current to collide more with atoms, requiring more energy to push current through
• As potential difference increases

  Current no longer increases as much
• Filament lamp is not an ohmic conductor