microscopy

• features of a light microscope


  base, arm, light source, stage, microscope slide, objective lens, body tube, eye piece, course focus knob, fine focus knob
• object

  real object or sample you’re looking at
• image

  image we see when we look down the microscope
• magnification

  how many times larger the image is than the object
• resolution

  shortest distance between two points on an object that can still be distinguished as two separate entities
• pathway of a light through a microscope

  light source to stage to microscope slide to object to objective lens to body tube to eyepiece lens to eye