Electric Light

Description:

An electric light is a light produced by the use of electricity. Electric light sources
may be of the incandescent, fluorescent, gas discharge, or LED type. Electric light is a
device that produces visible light from electric current. It is the most common form of
artificial lighting and is essential to modern society, providing interior lighting for
buildings and exterior light for evening and nighttime activities. In technical usage, a
replaceable component that produces light from electricity is called a lamp. Lamps are
commonly called light bulbs; for example, the incandescent light bulb. Lamps usually
have a base made of ceramic, metal, glass or plastic, which secures the lamp in the
socket of a light fixture. The electrical connection to the socket may be made with a
screw-thread base, two metal pins, two metal caps or a bayonet cap.

Operation:

` The operation of electric light differs in each type. There are three main
categories for Electric light:

 Incandescent Light bulb

An electric light with a wire filament heated to such a high temperature that it glows
with visible light (incandescence). The filament is protected from oxidation with a glass
or fused quartz bulb that is filled with inert gas or a vacuum.

 Gas-discharge lamps

A family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electric discharge
through an ionized gas, a plasma. Typically, such lamps use a noble gas (argon, neon,
krypton, and xenon) or a mixture of these gases. Some include additional substances,
like mercury, sodium, and metal halides, which are vaporized during startup to become
part of the gas mixture.
  LED Lamps

A two-lead semiconductor light source. It is a p–n junction diode that emits light
when activated. When a suitable current is applied to the leads, electrons are able to
recombine with electron holes within the device, releasing energy in the form of
photons. This effect is called electroluminescence, and the color of the light
(corresponding to the energy of the photon) is determined by the energy band gap of
the semiconductor.

Application:

 Illumination
 Heat Sources
*Incubators
*Heat lamps

 Thermistor
*Stabilisation of sine wave oscillators
*Protection of tweeters in speaker closure (excess current that is too high for the
tweeter illuminates the light rather than blowing the tweeter).
*Automatic volume control in telephones
Sample Activity:

A simple series circuit for electric light

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