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Finding the Temperature of a Light Bulb Filament Introduction. Carbon resistors are the kind typically used in wiring circuits. They are made from a small cylinder of graphite, surrounded by a protective plastic coating. (See fig. 1a.) Short wires, or leads, are attached to the ends of the graphite cylinder and held in place by the coating. [You have two carbon resistors at your station.] Other materials and devices can also act like resistors; a light bulb filament, for example, usually consists of a thin tungsten wire with its two ends connected to separate parts of the metal base. (See fig. 1b.) Like most (but not all) solid materials, graphite and tungsten are ohmic, which means that resistors made from them obey Ohm’s Law, . Ohm’s law applies to each resistor in a circuit – even a complicated circuit with many resistors. in the formula is the voltage difference between the two ends of any one of one of the resistors, I is the current through that same resistor; and R is the resistance of that resistor. The unit for resistance is the Ohm, abbreviated by a Greek omega,; . Carbon resistors typically range from about 10 to about 10M=107. Since Ohm’s Law says that and I are proportional, one might expect that a graph of (vertical axis) vs. I (horizontal axis) will be a straight line through the origin with slope equal to the resistance R. In some cases, however, such a graph will not be straight. One possible reason is that larger currents tend to heat up a resistor, and for most materials a change in temperature causes a change in resistance. This temperature-dependence of resistance appears as a changing slope in a vs. I graph. In this lab exercise, you will use the changing resistance of a light bulb filament to estimate its operating temperature. Resistors Resistor Color Codes. Carbon resistors are often marked with colored stripes to indicate the value of resistance. A summary of the resistor color code is given on the accompanying sheet.