The fine adjustment, the two little knobs on both sides of a compound microscope, is rotated to move the body tube down or the stage up in tiny distances to help you focus in HIGH power.
The fine focus knob is geared with a different ratio than the coarse knob to "fine tune" your focus. It allows for tiny adjustments to the focus setting, rather than larger ones.
It makes the substance you're looking at clear, and not blurry.It basically puts it into focus.
what does the fine adjustment do on a microscope
The fine adjustment knob on a microscope is a small round knob found on its side. It is used to fine-tune the focus of the specimen after using the coarse adjustment knob.
It adjusts the focus slightly, to make the image clear you should only barely turn it.
It is used to make the picture sharper/clearer.
The fine adjustment knob of a microscope increases the resolution. It has no effect on magnification.
It focus the object under microscope
to focus on the specimen
The coarse adjustment knob elevates the microscope's stage up and down quickly. The fine adjustment knob does the same thing but more slowly and accurately. In other words, the fine adjustment knob should require more revolutions to elevate the stage as much as the coarse adj. knob does.
The fine adjustment knob is used with the power objective on the microscope. Since the objective is already at the highest objective possible for that microscope, using the coarse adjustment knob would focus to much on the object making the details harder to read. Using the fine adjustment knob, you are able to see the fine details within the object or organism you are studying. The higher the power, the finer the knob and the lower the objective, the coarser the knob and objective.
I'm pretty sure fine adjustment. But coarse adjustment also works. The power doesn't matter, There is ONE difference. Coarse adjustment- A knob that focuses the microscope on the specimen by RAISING and LOWERING the body tube of the scope. Fine adjustment- A knob that adjusts the HEIGHT of the body tube.
Assuming that you were talking about a microscope, then . . . the fine adjustment is really the normal adjustment. It's easy to use to get a great focus because it moves the focusing mechanism very little per turn. On the other hand, the fine adjustment simply won't get you close to initial focus without spending a day or two turning the dern thing. On the other hand, the COARSE focusing knob will get you NEARLY to correct focus in a flash.
The function of a microscope's coarse adjustment knob is to improve focus on the object under study by adjusting the lens. Unlike the fine adjustment, coarse adjustment moves the lenses quickly.
It is the smallest knob on the microscope.
On a light microscope there is the coarse adjustment knob and the fine adjustment knob
fine adjustment knob
After you adjust the coarse adjustment knob, the fine adjustment knob makes it sharper or clearer.
The fine-adjustment knob moves the body tube slightly to bring the image into sharper focus.
The adjustment knob is a component of a microscope that focuses the image of the object being studied. It is used in conjunction with the coarse adjustment knob.
The course adjustment knob raises and lowers the stage of the microscope. This knob is mainly used on the scanning and low power knob to simply find the specimen. When trying to focus directly, use the fine adjustment knob.
After you adjust the coarse adjustment knob, the fine adjustment knob makes it sharper or clearer.
This is the coarse adjustment knob. This should be used before the fine adjustment knob (the smaller knob) - which is for fine focusing.
Fine Adjustment Knob
It depends on what device it is to be used on? Basically, a coarse adjustment knob is used to get near (for example) a radio frequency. Then a fine adjustment knob is used to fine tune to the radio station. A microscope is another example where fine tuning is used to focus onto a specimen.
It is used to make the picture sharper/clearer.