Question 8.
Suppose you are looking at a cellular structure using an optical or light microscope. List the different magnifications of this microscope and briefly explain how to calculate these total magnifications?
The optical microscope,also reffered to as a light microscope is an instrument for visualizing fine detail of an object.It commonly uses visible light and a system of lenses to generate magnified images of small objects.
The objective lenses on light microscope does have powers that start of as 4x on the smallest power,10x on the middle power setting and 40x on the maximum power setting.This means that the object can be magnified either,40x,100x or 400x.
Total magnification=Objective magnification x ocular magnification.For eg;10x objective and 10x ocular,total magnification=10x10=100x(this means that the image being viewed will appear to be 100 times its actual size.)For a 40x objective and 10x ocular,total magnification=10x40=400x.
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