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How much can a microscope magnify?
it depends on wat microscope you have. some can magnify up to 2 billion times while others can only magnify up to 2000.
How much can the modern microscope magnify?
Up to 2,000,000
What makes a microscope work?
There are three types of basic microscopes: Electron Microscopes, Simple Light Microscopes, and Compound Light Microscopes. Simple [light] Microscopes work by focusing light through one lens. The most common lens, the Convex Lens, works by being thicker in the center than the edge. This bends the light, altering the image as it hits the second lens, your retina. A Compound [light] Microscope works differently. It is the most common microscope for everyday use, using a mirror to shine light up through a slide containing a specimin. Next, the ray of light shines up through a series of lenses, bending the light and multiplying the magnification and resolution levels of the image, until it hits your retina. Robert Hooke used a very complex compound microscope to observe cells through a thin slice of cork wood. The Electron Microscope is the most technologically advanced and, in my opinion, the coolest type yet. In fact, the electron microscope was so complex that it was not discovered until the late 1930's. It uses a beam of electrons instead of light to magnify an image. This allows you to get a much closer image with much higher resolution than with a regular light microscope. The most complex light microscope can only magnify an image up to 5000 times. An electron microscope can easily double that, a recently founded electron microscope can magnify an image up to 150,000 times. To work, this microscope actually borrows electrons from atoms, and as long as they return the electrons to the atoms, there is still perfect balance.
What is the major difference between the light microscope and the electron microscope?
Electron microscopes can see much closer than a light microscope, and they use electrons to paint a picture of what the object looks like. Giving a very detailed and small picture that can be viewed on a monitor.
Which structure controls how much light passes through the specimen in microscope?
The answer to this microscope question is the stage opening.
How much can light microscope magnify an object?
40x
How much did Robert Hooke's microscope magnify?
it can magnify an object up to 30 times it can magnify an object's appearance by 30 times
How much can a light microscope magnify?
1500 times
What is the difference between a compound microscope and an electron microscope?
Compound microscopes (also called compound light microscopes) employ light and an array of glass lenses to magnify an object. (This is distinguished from a simple microscope of one lens.) An electron microscope uses a beam of electrons to magnify an object. The lensing system employs electric and magnetic fields and is specialized for applications requiring much higher magnification. See related links.
How much the first microscope magnify?
The first microscope could magnify Less Than 20X
A microscope that can magnify up to 500 000 times is the?
A electron microscope uses a beam of electrons instead of light to magnify objects up to 500,000 times actual size. A electron microscope has much higher resolving power than light microscopes.
How much can a microscope magnify?
it depends on wat microscope you have. some can magnify up to 2 billion times while others can only magnify up to 2000.
How much can a modern microscope magnify?
50
How much can the modern microscope magnify?
Up to 2,000,000
How much did the first microscope magnify by?
Between 3X and 9X
What are the functions of a simple microscope?
Light microscope uses light to magnify a specimen. Human or plant cells, bacteria, and protists can be observed and analyzed using light microscopes. For much smaller things like virus or macromolecules, you will need much stronger microscopes, such as scanning electron microscopes.
How much bigger does a cell look through a microscope?
Depends how much you magnify it! Check the lens!
