Flashlight Report

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As the internal temperature of a flashlight increases, how does the temperature effect the output of an led flashlight changes over time.
Flashlights first came to be in 1898. The reason why this device is called a flashlight is because of the inefficient zinc-carbon batteries that were originally used in early flashlights that were only able to produce light for small amounts of time, resembling blinking or a flashing light. Flashlights were first given to law enforcement to increase visibility during the night or in dark places. The only problem with the flashlights was only being able to have short bursts of light and have to wait until the flashlight was able to be used again.
Flashlights consist of four key parts that work together to produce light. At the most basic level, a flashlight contains a switch, a circuit, and a light bulb which where the light comes from. For light to be produced, the switch needs to be connected to the rest of the circuit to make it complete. An easy way to think about it is as an bridge, when its in the up position there is no current allowing for the light to be produced, But when it it pointing down, it allows car to travel through like the switch does when connected t the circuit. The switch is either triggered by a push button or a button that slides completing the circuit. what makes the lightbulb filament light up is a filament that when free flowing electrons travel across to create a glowing or bright light. But after a certain amount of time, the filament tends to burn out and the light bulb ceases to work and becomes useless. As time progressed new batteries were discovered to make the most energy and the most efficient for flashlights allowing a continuous light.
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...times but wait 5 minutes between each test for the LED to cool down.

11. Repeat steps 7-9 three more times for every remaining light color being tested.

Risk and Safety-

There is the potential risk of looking directly into the LED causing eye damage.

Data Analysis-

I will make a data table, then plot the amount of time on the x-axis and the illuminance of the light along the y-axis. I will then determine if the shapes of the curves remain constant for each trial and does it take the same amount of time for each color to reach thermal equilibrium. Then a bar chart will be made that plots the color frequency on the x-axis and on the y-axis will be the peak illuminance for each trial. After this I will analyze and decide which color has the highest and lowest peak illuminance and does make sense in what I already know about electron gaps, energy and color?

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