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Voltage & Current Graph: filament lamp

For a filament lamp, however, the temperature of the filament is most definitely not constant (it must to get hot in order to give out light!)

The resistance of a lamp's filament (the long, thin, coiled wire) increases dramatically as the current increases. This results in the following graph:

current-voltage graph for a filament lamp, showing resistance increasing


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