With light microscopy, if the objective lens (lens closest to the specimen) magnifies 40-fold, and the eyepiece lens magnifies 1

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0-fold, the final magnification will be:_________

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Fed [463] · Answer 1 · 2023-06-19T12:31:11+03:00

The final magnification will be 400-fold or 400 times the original size of the object.

For magnifying smaller objects, a compound microscope is used.

A compound microscope consists of an objective and an eyepiece, whose diagram is shown in the adjoining image.

The lens near the object is called an objective and the other one is the eyepiece.

Let the magnification of the objective be m1

Let the magnification of the eyepiece be m2

The final magnification by the microscope, M, will be

M = m1 x m2

Putting the values in the above equation

M = 40 x 10

M= 400

Thus, the final magnification will be 400-fold or 400 times the original size of the object.

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