With a normal light microscope, you can't look directly at your finger. It's just too thick for light from underneath to pass through, to reach the microscope lenses. It might be possible to scrape off thin layers of dead skin and put them on a slide to view through a microscope, though.
You use a microscope to look at a cell.
You use a microscope to look at a cell.
What you do first when you use a microscope you put the slide in. Then you focus the microscope. Then you look at the object you are supposed to or look at the object you want to.
microscope
When you want to look at things you couldn't with a light microscope.
---- You would use the light microscope. The electron microscope would be unnecessary in this situation, due to its high magnification levels.
To look at small things.
Stereo Microscope
A light microscope would be suitable to observe a splinter in the finger as it provides enough magnification and resolution to see small objects like splinters. Additionally, a dissecting microscope could also be used for larger splinters to examine them in more detail.
scanning electron microscope
A microscope.
to look for things that you couldn't normally see, or to look at things closer