Microscopy - What Is It

Question 1

If you look at cheek cells under a microscope, are the shapes that you see when looking down the microscope the object or the image? Why?

Answer 1

Image: they are a magnified version of the real object, created by the microscope.

Question 2

If you place a human hair on a microscope slide, and look at it under a microscope, is the hair itself considered the object or the image?

Answer 2

• object
  -The hair itself is the object because it’s the real hair sitting on the slide.

Question 3

What is a microscope designed to do

Answer 3

• magnify small objects so that they appear larger.

Question 4

What is resolution

Answer 4

When using microscopes, a more detailed image is said to have a higher resolution

Question 5

What is the definition of magnification?

Answer 5

How many times larger the image is than the objec

Question 6

What is the pathway of light through a microscope?

Answer 6

Light source ➔ stage ➔ microscope slide ➔ object ➔ objective lens ➔ body tube ➔ eyepiece lens ➔ eye

Question 7

Label

Answer 7

Question 8

Which objective lens to start on

Answer 8

• lowest magnification objective lens
  —> easier to focus image
  —> gives a wider field of view