a compound light microscope
convex converging apex... :P
That is true of most microscopes and of telescopes.
Usually the lenses. But some cheap microscopes use computer software to do the enlarging.
a lens magnifies an object by using the pupal of your eyes and the glass from the lens to look up close. a lens magnifies an object by using the pupal of your eyes and the glass from the lens to look up close.
The telescope magnifies the image of an object, allowing us to see it in greater detail.
The telescope magnifies the image of an object, allowing us to see it in greater detail.
Magnifies the object being observed through the microscope. The magnification of the lens being used will determine how closely the object can be viewed.
magnifies the object
the piece that you look through to see the object, plus also magnifies, usually 10x.
The part of a compound microscope that magnifies an object is called a the ocular. An ocular is the exact same thing as an eye piece lens.
The lenses serve to enlarge the object you want to study. Without them, you might as well look through a toilet roll.
The microscope works because of two lenses (ocular and objective). The objective lens magnifies the object and produces a real image. This image is projected to the ocular lens and produces the virtual image, which is the one that the eye views. More specifically, light from substage bounces off a mirror and illuminates the object on the slide being viewed on the stage. The light is then bent into a parallel path and travels through the microscope tube (through the objective lens). Then the light is bent again into a small focus for the eye to view the magnified object through the ocular lenses. Switching the amount the object is magnified by switching the objective lens changes how much the light is bent.