Microscope Optics: questions and calculations

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Homework Statement
Please see below
Relevant Equations
Please see below
For this problem,

Distance from objective to object
Distance between the objective and eyepiece

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For (b) I got and which means that firsts image is inverted and real

For (c) I got and . However, I thought since the second image is virtual and inverted from a ray diagram.

For (d)

I got which is interesting since the finial image is inverted

Can someone please tell me whether I am correct and how to tell the second image is virtual without drawing a ray diagram?

Many thanks!
 
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Hi, seems to me there is a lot missing:
Given information?
Relevant equations?
 
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BvU said:
Hi, seems to me there is a lot missing:
Given information?
Relevant equations?
Thank you for your reply @BvU!

Distance from objective to object
Distance between the objective and eyepiece

Is the given information (the data collected from the experiment)

Relevant equation:
- thin lens formula
- Magnification formula

Many thanks!
 
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Never saw a microscope do anything sensible at 10.6 cm from the object....
 
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BvU said:
Never saw a microscope do anything sensible at 10.6 cm from the object....
Thank you for your reply @BvU!

Well it did in the labs! We used a 150 mm and 75 mm convex lens to make a microscope and adjusted the distances accordingly to get a clear image.

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ChiralSuperfields said:
Well it did in the labs! We used a 150 mm and 75 mm convex lens to make a microscope and adjusted the distances accordingly to get a clear image
Do you realize there is some very useful information there?
BvU said:
Never saw a microscope do anything sensible at 10.6 cm from the object....
So this isn't some biologist's microscope, but a lab exercise to work out the principles. OK!

And now we have some input for the relevant equations !

Now we can gamble safely that the objective lens is the 75 mm one ( but it would have been much better if you had offered that voluntarily in the problem description :wink:).

Then I can understand your answer to the (b) (?) part.

But not what you do for (c). What is your ?
(Or better: post your work, clearly, step by step :smile:)

 
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BvU said:
Do you realize there is some very useful information there?

So this isn't some biologist's microscope, but a lab exercise to work out the principles. OK!

And now we have some input for the relevant equations !

Now we can gamble safely that the objective lens is the 75 mm one ( but it would have been much better if you had offered that voluntarily in the problem description :wink:).

Then I can understand your answer to the (b) (?) part.

But not what you do for (c). What is your ?
(Or better: post your work, clearly, step by step :smile:)

Thank you for your reply @BvU!

My for is the real image formed by objective lens. I use that virtual object for the eyepiece.




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ChiralSuperfields said:
My for is the real image formed by objective lens. I use that virtual object for the eyepiece.


How come you think this image is formed at a distance of 26 cm from the eyepiece ?

 
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BvU said:
How come you think this image is formed at a distance of 26 cm from the eyepiece ?

Thank you for your reply @BvU!

True, that might be a mistake. I guess 26 cm is the distance from the real image from the objective lens not the eyepiece so I guess the distance to the real image from the eyepiece should be this gives
the finial image to be - 17 cm from the objective lens.

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We are getting there, step by step :smile:

A remark about accuracy: you have input with 2 to 2½ digit accuracy. You want to do your calculations with at least that and only round off properly at the end. So NOT cm but 8.355 and then cm, so you get -18.9 cm, not -17 !

So: what's the performance of your 'microscope' ?

 
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BvU said:
We are getting there, step by step :smile:

A remark about accuracy: you have input with 2 to 2½ digit accuracy. You want to do your calculations with at least that and only round off properly at the end. So NOT cm but 8.355 and then cm, so you get -18.9 cm, not -17 !

So: what's the performance of your 'microscope' ?

Thank you for your help @BvU!

Sorry, what do you mean by performance of the microscope?

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Magnification :smile:
 
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BvU said:
Magnification :smile:
Thank you for your help @BvU!
For the total magnification I get which means that it must be an enlarged and inverted image

Many thanks!
 
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