
How does a light bulb work? | Science Questions - The Naked …
Oct 2, 2005 · A light bulb is an electrical filament. What you have is a long piece of wire, and when you connect this to a socket, it basically completes a circuit. As electricity passes …
Inside an LED bulb | Science Features - The Naked Scientists
Feb 28, 2017 · We slice open an LED light bulb to see how they work and why we need them.
Why do low energy lightbulbs take so long to reach full brightness ...
Apr 1, 2012 · Dave - This is all to do with how an energy saving light bulb works. Conventional old-fashioned light bulbs basically work by putting a lot of electricity through a very thin wire, …
Lighting bulbs without wires | Experiments - The Naked Scientists
Apr 13, 2008 · How does the light bulb work normally? Energy saving light bulbs and fluorescent tubes (which this experiment should work on too) work in the same way, except that instead of …
How does a Solar Radiometer work? | Questions | Naked Scientists
Jun 22, 2008 · How does it do it? If you look closely at those vanes, at those panels you'll see that they have a light side and a dark side. One side is soaking up the light, the other is reflecting it. …
How Does Electrocution Kill You? - The Naked Scientists
Mar 15, 2017 · light-bulb-503881_1920.jpg Power is everywhere in the modern world, and installations are present everywhere we turn. While that means electricity is at our fingertips at …
How do Thunderstorms and Lightning Work? | Science Features
Jun 3, 2007 · The light therefore reaches you first, then a short while later (depending upon how far away the storm is), the thunder rolls in. So with all that energy knocking around up there, …
How does a lightbulb work? | Podcasts - The Naked Scientists
Feb 18, 2011 · What's actually going on in a lightbulb when you switch it on? And why are energy saving bulbs more efficient than normal incandescent ones? Find out in the latest Naked …
Colours in CDs | Experiments | Naked Scientists
Dec 7, 2008 · Light behaves like a wave, different colours have different wavelengths (blue short and red long) and the light waves reflecting from the gaps between the slits will interact with …
QotW: How do electrons flow in electric current? - Naked Scientists
May 26, 2020 · Old filament light bulbs use this to turn electricity into light, and you’ll notice that when a bulb has been left on for a while, it will be very hot to touch. Eva - So wires do light up …