A bulb glows when it gets heated to a large extent due to the heating effect of current. Then, how does the bulb glow immediately when we switch it on? Doesn't it need some time to get heated up?

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The filament of the bulb gets heated almost immediately and the time is so less that it is hardly noticeable.

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