How to determine the total magnification when using any objective of your microscope?

Answer 1

Ask a jellyfish

yea.....well if you don't have a jellyfish around when you need it, you can also look at the magnifier, so if a regular microscope has 4x under lwo power, it is 40x, due to 10x already when you look through the ocular piece. so medium power is 10x, would be 100 times magnified, and 40x for high is 400 times magnified.

Answer 2

Total magnification= (the ocular magnification) * (objective lens magnification). For example, the magnification of oculars in most compound microscopes is 10X, an the magnification of the objective lens in compound microscopes can go from 4 to 100X. If you're using a 100X objective lens, then the total magnification is (10)(100).

Answer 3

first start from the low power which is usually 10x.

Answer 4

for example... if your eyepiece has a magnification of 10x and you are viewing through an objective lense of 20x, you multiply the magnifications, equalling a total magnification of 200x