What is Microscopy?

• Microscopy


  The use of microscopes
• How light microscopes work

  1. Light from the room hits the mirror

  2. Reflected upwards through the object

  3. Passes through the objective lens

  4. Passes through the eyepiece lens

  5. Into the eye
• Object


  The real object or sample that you're looking at
• Image


  The image that we see when we look down the microscope
• Magnification


  How many times larger the image is than the object
• Magnification = image size / object size
• Resolution


  The shortest distance between two points on an object that can still be distinguished as two separate entities
• Higher resolution means more detail and less blurriness
• Parts of a light microscope

  • Base
  • Arm
  • Light source (lamp or mirror)
  • Stage
  • Objective lenses
  • Eyepiece lens
  • Body tube
  • Coarse and fine focusing knobs