Why aren't the magnificaions of both ocular lenses of a binocular microscope used to calculate total magnification?

Answer 1

Because each eye needs its own magnified image. Put another way: Your brain doesn't add the magnification power of the image seen on the left to the magnification power of the image seen on the right. If only one ocular was magnified, you wouldn't be able to see the magnified image in both eyes---the eye with the unmagnified image would see unmagnified and the eye with the magnified image would see magnified. Am I understanding the question correctly?

Answer 2

Ocular lenses are parallel so it doesn't affect the magnification total. Binocular microscope allows light to enter, than hit the specimen, then the objective and then both ocular lens at the same. It would affect magnification totals if lenses were stacked.

Answer 3

Each ocular lens corresponds to just one eye. If it is, say, a 10x lens, it is 10x to the left eye and 10x to the right eye. You cannot add the 10x of one eye to the other, because the other eye does not look through it, but just through its own lens.

To say that you could add the two magnifications is like saying that you can add the horsepower of the engines of two drag racing cars together.

Answer 4

no the total mass is not prefensly added to come up with that solution "BOB"