I think everybody knows what is going on with a lamp filament by now,
but now we need to decide what Ohm's Law is. I would say that Ohm's law
states that a wide variety of materials have the property that their
resistance is constant if they are held at a constant temperature. If
this were put to the test so that the filament of the bulb could be kept
at constant temperature I would suppose that its resistance would be
well defined and very nearly constant.
WBN
Barlow Newbolt
Professor of Physics
Washington and Lee University
e-mail: newboltw@wlu.edu
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"Had I been present at the creation, I would have given
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