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Optical Microscope Flashcards

1
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Used extensively to examine transparent minerals, fragments, grains and small crystals, as well as thin sections of minerals, rocks and other crystalline aggregates

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Polarizing Microscope

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useful in the determination of the optical properties of individual crystals or aggregates and in the interpretations of textures, structures, growth patterns, and various relationship of natural or artificial substance.

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Polarizing Microscope

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3
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source of light of the microscope

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Light source

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4
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Concentrates light

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Collector lens system

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5
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controls light ray bundle at
the source field

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Field iris diaphragm with
field iris diaphragm ring

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6
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used to polarize the light in one direction

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Polarizer

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7
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It controls and illuminates light coming from the source field directed to the object field.

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Condenser

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8
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controls cone of light catering the objective

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Aperture Iris Diaphragm

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9
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It is useful for R. I. determination

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Aperture Iris Diaphragm

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10
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platform for specimen

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Stage

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11
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Fix specimen on stage

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Stage Clips

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12
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Used for point locations and systematic traverse in a species along mutually perpendicular directions

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Mechanical Stage

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13
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For Focusing Image (moving in cm)

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Coarse Adjustment Knob

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14
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For Focusing Image (moving in mm)

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Fine Adjustment Knob

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15
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holds objectives

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Revolving Nosepiece

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16
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Essential lenses of microscope for magnification and resolution

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Objectives initial

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17
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Magnifications of the Objectives initial

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4x, 10x, 20x, 40x

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18
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used to **determine fast and slow directions (electric vectors) of light polarization **in crystals under view on the microscope stage by increasing or decreasing retardation of the light

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Gypsum plate

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19
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cut to such thickness that it increases or decreases
retardation of a section by about 1/4λ (sodium light)

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mica plate

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20
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ground to produce interference colors from the
beginning of the first to the end of the third or fourth order.

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quartz wedge

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21
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quartz wedge equals to?

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0.009

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22
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Beam of** light consists of a stream of minute particles, or photons,** given off at high velocity by a luminous body that travel through space in straight lines and eventually reach the eye.

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Corpuscular Theory

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23
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light to be transmitted by the vibration of particle in the waves

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Wave Theory

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24
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Magnifications of the Objectives initial

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4x, 10x,20x, 40x

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25
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The phenomena of light such as reflection, refraction, diffraction and interference may be readily explained in accordance with this theory

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Wave Theory

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26
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The (Dutch) scientist that advanced the Wave Theory

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Christian Huygens

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27
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considers light as made up of waves but said that waves are electromagnetic

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Electromagnetic Theory

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28
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He proposed the Electromagnetic Theory in 1873

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James Clerk Maxwell

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29
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Assuming that radiating oscillators in a black body radiate energy discontinuously in units called quanta.

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Quantum Theory

30
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He proposed the Quantum Theory

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Planck / Max Planck

31
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The locus of all the points of a medium which receives light wave disturbance simultaneously so that all points are in the same phase.

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Wave Front

32
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A perpendicular drawn to the surface of a wave front at any direction of propagation of light

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Wave Normal

33
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Direction in which the light is propagated

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Ray of Light

34
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It is alway perpendicular to wave front

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Ray of Light

35
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A wave normal represents a _________________

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Ray of Light

36
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The wave normal and direction of propagation of light rays are** perpendicular to the wave front.**

37
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The light rays are** not parallel to the wave front.**

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Anisotropic

38
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May represent a curve combining movement around
a circle with motion along a straight line.

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Displacement

39
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Lies in the wavefront and is perpendicular to the ray in isotropic media.

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Vibration direction

40
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In ____________, Vibration direction is only perpendicular in limited directions.

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anisotropic media

41
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Distance between two successive crests or troughs, or
any corresponding distance along the wave.

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Wavelength

42
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Surface determined at a given instant by all parts of a system of waves traveling along the same direction and in the same phase.

43
Q

wavefront is perpendicular only in certain
directions in?

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anisotropic

44
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Part of the microscope that we
move left to right.

based on discussion

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Mechanical Stage

45
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the amount of space between the front of the objective and the top of the coverglass, when the specimen is in focus

definition is from google but it was discussed

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Free working distance

46
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for insertion of microscopic
accessory plate

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Test plate

47
Q

polarizes light

48
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for observing interference
figure

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Bertrand lens

49
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Approximates daylight

note that they only use blue filter before bc the light is yellow

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Filter mount with blue
filter

50
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Holds the eye piece

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Observation tube

51
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essential lenses of microscope for magnification or resolution conform with objectives

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Eyepieces with cross hair

52
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for focusing eyepieces

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Diopter adjustment ring

53
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for camera attachment in
photomicrography

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Photo Tube

54
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number of vibrations in a given unit of time.

55
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maximum displacement of a wave from the line of transmission

56
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time interval necessary for a wave to undergo a complete oscillation

57
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point of the wave with the maximum upward displacement

58
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point of the wave with the greatest downward displacement

59
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a group of light waves following along a sample path

60
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straight-line path followed by light in moving from one point to another

61
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equal to the ratio of the wave-normal velocity in a
vacuum to the wave-normal velocity in the medium whether isotropic or anisotrophic

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Refractive index

62
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light of a single wavelength

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Monochromatic light

63
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lies parallel to the plane of the wavefront.

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Light vector

64
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In ____________ , Light Vector is perpendicular to the direction of the propagation

65
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In ______________ , Light vector is still
parallel but not perpendicular to the direction of the propagation.

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anisotropic

66
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2 Types of Vector

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  1. electric
  2. magnetic
67
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measures the electrical displacement

68
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measures the magnetic displacement or induction.

69
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combination of all the different wavelengths visible to the eye

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White light

70
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Speed of light

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186,284 miles per second

71
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realistic virtual image with a flat field

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Orthoscopic observation

72
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elds interference figures which represent
an optical pattern caused by the behavior of light in individual crystal

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Conoscopic observation

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