Why does passing an electric current through the metal filament of a light bulb produce light? The explanation is that the electrical energy makes the electrons in some of the atoms of the filament metal jump outward to an orbit with a higher energy level.
This higher orbit is unstable, and after a while the electron will pop back into its original orbit; when it does this, it emits energy in the form of light.
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