A | B |
arm | Supports the body tube |
base | Supports the mocroscope |
body tube | Provides distance between the lenses |
coarse adjustment knob | Focuses image |
diaphragm | Adjusts the amount of light |
eyepiece lens | lense you look through to magnify the image |
fine adjustment knob | Sharpens the image |
mirror | Directs or reflects light |
objective lens | Magnifies the object |
ocular lens | Magnifies lens you look through |
SEM | Scanning Electron Microscope, magnifies 100,000 to 250,000 times |
TEM | Transmission Electronic Microscope, magnifies 1 to 2 million times |
SEM | Type of microscope that produces a 3-D image |
Ocular lens x Objective lens | Formula used to calculate total magnification |