Recent content by Hufsa

Yeah, I didn't really use my brain. Sorry. But to my defense, I'm in high school, we only just recently started studying electricity, and so far it's only been about static electricity. So I'm not very used to this type of thinking. When it comes to physics, I'm mostly self-taught. For instance...

Thanks for the reply. I just found the article on gas-discharge lamps on wikipedia. "Gas-discharge lamps are a family of artificial light sources that generate light by sending an electrical discharge through an ionized gas, a plasma. [...] In operation the gas is ionized, and free electrons...

Hi, I'm trying to understand how neon lights work. I understand that the emitted light comes from excited atoms in the gas, and I know what a neon light consists of. But I'm a little bit confused about one part, how do the atoms get excited? I've seen two different explanations, if I understand...