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    Description of A Microscope: Dailo, Nerille Jan A. BSA

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    This document describes the key parts of a microscope and their functions. It explains that a microscope is used to magnify and resolve tiny objects invisible to the naked eye. The main parts discussed are the eyepiece, tube, revolving nosepiece, objective lenses, diaphragm, coarse and fine adjustment knobs, arm, stage, stage clips, condenser, base, and power switch. It also provides a brief history of microscopes and explains the operating principle of how they magnify tiny objects.

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    This document describes the key parts of a microscope and their functions. It explains that a microscope is used to magnify and resolve tiny objects invisible to the naked eye. The main parts discussed are the eyepiece, tube, revolving nosepiece, objective lenses, diaphragm, coarse and fine adjustment knobs, arm, stage, stage clips, condenser, base, and power switch. It also provides a brief history of microscopes and explains the operating principle of how they magnify tiny objects.

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    Dailo, Nerille Jan A.

    BSA

    DESCRIPTION OF A MICROSCOPE

    This Mechanism description is intended for those Students who are taking up science
    subject/courses. They have to know the main functions of each and every part of microscope to
    be able to learn how to use it.

    Knowing the parts of a microscope , can help them to use it easily and in much
    convenient way. They must know how the individual and combined parts of the microscope
    work in case they need to repair it. Simplified description is one of the best way to help them
    understand the true nature of this Microscope.

    A microscope is an instrument widely to magnify and resolve the image of an object that
    is otherwise invisible to naked eye. For resolving the details of objects, which otherwise cannot
    be achieved by naked eye, a microscope is used.

    Image of a

    Microscope
    The following are the parts of microscope:
    Eyepiece or ocular lens: Eyepiece is the lens, present at the top and
    is used to see the objects under study. Eyepiece lens contains a
    magnification of 10X or 15X.

    Tube: Tube or the body tube, connects the eyepiece to the


    objectivelenses.

    Revolving nosepiece: It is also known as the Turret. Resolving


    nosepiece has holders for the different objective lenses.
    It allows the rotation of the lenses while viewing.

    Objective lenses: Generally, three or four objective lenses are


    found on a microscope, with ranges of 10X, 40X, 100X powers.
    Lenses are colour coded, the shortest lens is of the lowest
    power, and the longest lens is high power lenses.
    Diaphragm: Diaphragm helps in controlling the amount of light
    that is passing through the opening of the stage. It is helpful in
    the adjustment of the control of light that enters.

    Coarse adjustment knob: Used for focus on scanning.Usually the


    low power lens is used enabling the movement of the tube.

    Fine adjustment knob: Used for focus on oil. Moves the


    body tube for focussing the high power lens.

    Arm: It supports the tube of the microscope and connects


    to the base of the microscope.
    Stage: The platform that is flat used for placing the slides
    under observation.

    Stage clip: Stage clips hold the slides in proper place

    Condenser: The main function of condenser lens is focussing


    the light on the specimen under observation. When very high
    powers of 400X are used, condenser lenses are very important.
    Presence of condenser lens gives a sharper image as compared
    to the microscope with no condenser lens.
    Base: Provides basal support for the microscope.

    Power switch: The main power switch that turns the


    illumination on or off.
    Theory

    Who invented the microscope?

    A complete Microscope History

    Like many inventions today there are disputes in origins of the original inventors. The same
    dispute applies to who invented the microscope.

    Dating back to the first century when glass was first invented, the Roman's were investigating
    the use of glass and how viewing objects through it, made the objects appear larger.

    Then, in the 13th Salvino D'Armate from Italy, made the first eye glass, providing the wearer
    with an element of magnification to one eye.

    The earliest simple forms of magnification were magnifying glasses, usually about 6x - 10x and
    were used for inspecting tiny insects such as fleas, hence these early magnifiers called "flea
    glasses".

    Modern compound microscopes

    With the advancement of technology and improved optics,


    the microscope as we know it today came into being.
    The theoretical minimum size able to be viewed by an
    optical microscope is 200nm (as defined by Abbe),
    since optical microscopes are only able focus on objects
    that are at least the size of a wavelength of light
    (usually, a wavelength of around 550 nm is assumed).
    An electron microscope, in contrast, can magnify images
    thousands of times smaller than a wavelength of light.
    Operating Principle

    Microscopes are effectively just tubes packed with lenses, curved pieces of glass that bend light
    rays passing through them. The simplest microscope of all is a magnifying glass made from a
    single convex lens, which typically magnifies by about 5–10 times. Microscopes used in homes,
    schools, and professional laboratories are actually compound microscopes and use at least two
    lenses to produce a magnified image. There's a lens above the object (called the objective lens)
    and another lens near your eye (called the eyepiece or ocular lens). Each of these may, in fact,
    be made up of a series of different lenses. Most compound microscopes can magnify by 10, 20,
    40, or 100 times, though professional ones can magnify by 1000 times or more. For greater
    magnification than this, scientists generally use electron microscopes.

    So what does a microscope actually do? Imagine a fly sitting on the table in front of you. The
    big, fat, compound eye on the front of its head is just a few millimeters across, but it's made up
    of around 6000 tiny segments, each one a tiny, functioning eye in miniature. To see a fly's eye
    in detail, our own eyes would need to be able to process details that are millimeters divided
    into thousands—millionths of a meter (or microns, as they're usually called). Your eyes may be
    good, but they're not that good. To study a fly's eye really well, you'd need it to be maybe 10–
    100 cm (4–40 in) across: the sort of size it would be in a nice big photo. That's the job a
    microscope does. Using very precisely made glass lenses, it takes the minutely separated light
    rays coming from something tiny (like a fly's eye) and spreads them apart so they appear to be
    coming from a much bigger object.

    CONCLUSION
    A microscope is commonly used in a microbiological laboratory and is uses for the study of
    organisms. The various parts of a microscope with their associated function are mentioned
    above. Microscope is complicated. So each and every one should know how to use it.Much
    more if you are studying Sciences and you have to use microscope to do research. It requires
    practice to learn how to properly use this mechanism. But once you learn how to use it. You will
    enjoy it.

    References:
    http://www.tutorvista.com/biology/microscope-parts-and-functions
    http://www.history-of-the-microscope.org/history-of-the-microscope-who-invented-the-microscope.php
    http://www.explainthatstuff.com/microscopes.html

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