microscopy

• What is microscopy?


  The use of microscopes
• What is the object?

  The real object or sample that your looking at
• What is the image?

  What we see when we look into the microscope
• What is the equation for magnification?

  magnification= image size/object size
• what is a resolution?

  the shortest distnace between two points on a object
• Light microscopes?


  easy to use. relitively cheap. rely on light. not very high resolution. Not good enough to study subcellular structure.
• Electron microscopes?


  Very expensive. hard to use. use electrons intead of light. Resolution is better than light microscopes. can use them to study sub cellular structures.