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    Compound Microscope Lab

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    Report #1: Using a Compound Microscope Section: 5 Objective: What is the proper way to use a compound microscope and prepare a wet-mount slide? Hypothesis: A compound microscope is being used properly when the light source, nosepiece lens, and eyepiece lens work together to bring a magnified image to one’s eye. A wet-mount is properly prepared when a drop of liquid containing the sample is placed between the slide and a thin glass coverslip. Materials: Compound Microscope Lens Paper Prepared Slide

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    Light Microscope, Transmission Electron Microscope and Scanning Electron Microscope work; Evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of each type of microscope. The three different types of microscope all work very differently. They all have limitations as to what can and cannot be seen through them and two key factors as to why this is are magnification and resolution. Magnification determines how closely we can look at the object, whereas resolution presents the limits of the microscope as to what

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    How are the photographs taken with a 3D microscope different than those taken with a regular camera? How are they similar? They are different, because you can see so much more when you look through a microscope. For instance, you can see a strand of hair through a camera, at a tenth of a millimeter, but not a cell, at 100th of a millimeter. How can photography allow us to view the world around us in different ways? By taking memories, and valueing them. Teaching us to cherish the times spent with

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    types of microscopes that can be used in a murder case for example: stereo microscope, comparison microscope, compound microscope, etc. The microscope that I went in a more in-depth look into was the comparison microscope. This particular microscope can help identify two different items to find out how the items are linked together. The comparison microscope was created in the 1920’s by Calvin Goddard and his partner Phillip Gravelle. According to Weinstein, “The name "comparison microscope" was obtained

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    The lateral and axial resolution of the microscope play a key role in biological studies to investigate the intricate internal mechanisms of the cell. There is a fundamental limitation with the lateral resolution of the microscope due to the finite wavelength of light. Although, during the past few years, a large number of solutions have been presented to deal with this problem, e.g., scanning electron microscopy (SEM), scanning tunnel microscopy (STM), atomic force microscopy (AFM), optical microscopy

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    The Evolution of the Microscope Essay

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    Microscope Research Paper The evolution of the microscope. The first form of the microscope was a crystal that was found by someone from a long time ago. The crystal was thick in the middle, but thinner around the egdes. The crystal made things look bigger when someone looked through it. The pearson also noticed that if the sun shone through the crystal, certain things could get burnt or set on fire. They were known as "magnifiers". Magnifiers were mentioned in the writings of the two Roman philosophers

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    Using a microscope to view living cells Introduction Living cells are the most basic unit of life, however, they are impossible to see without the magnification of a microscope. There are different types of microscopes with alterations to serve a specific function, but the general use is the same. It is a tool invented with a curved lense that magnifies things that cannot be seen with the naked eye. A microscope can be used to see many things, in this particular lab they were used to observe cells

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    Microscopy is a practical field for using microscopes to view object that cannot being seen with the naked eye or object that contained by the resolution range of the normal eye. There are two fundamentally different types of microscope. 1. ELECTRON MICROSCOPE:- Consist of electromagnetic lenses to focus a beam of light . - Having magnification power up to 200000. LIGHT MICROSCOPE:- consist of a single or a series of glass lenses to focus light in order to form an image. - Having maximum ability

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    The Microscope used in this lab is called a compound light microscope. This particular microscope has four different magnifications including: 4X (or 40 times the actual size), 10X, 40X, and 100X. The magnification with which one can view the largest area would be the 4X, which would only be a magnification of 40 times rather than 400 or 1000 times the magnification. If the E. Coli is smeared onto the slide too thick, the detail will not appear clear when viewing the slide through a microscope. When

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    Many of the illnesses that plagued the human race could be found at the microscopic level. The microscope, one of the greatest human inventions, has helped find treatments for many of these illnesses, solve crimes, and see into the cells that make humans what they are. To understand the greatness of the microscope, the history of the microscope should be made known. The origins of the microscope can be traced back to the Roman invention of glass in the first century A.D. When the Romans experimented

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