Name: __Sheherqueen P. Manganip____________________ Group No.

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Section: _________ELIJAH____________ Date: ________________

EXPERIMENT NO. 1

THE COMPOUND MICROSCOPE

The compound microscope is an instrument to enable us to see what the naked eye can’t
see. It makes use of transmitted and regulated light. The parts of the microscope may be divided
into mechanical, magnifying sand illuminating parts.

The microscope is a delicate instrument and should be handled with care. Before using
the microscope, learn to manipulate the different parts.

OBJECTIVE:

To acquaint the students with parts of the microscope.

MATERIAL:

Compound Microscope

PROCEDURE:

1. Obtain a compound microscope.

2. Examine the parts of the microscope.

3. Identify the parts of the microscope and classify whether they are mechanical, magnifying or
illuminating parts.
GUIDE QUESTIONS:

1. Draw the compound microscope and label its parts.

Complete the table below.

PARTS FUNCTIONS

1. Mechanical

A. Base A. Used for support illuminator

B. Connects to the base and supports the
B. Arm microscope head
C. To hold the ocular lens
C. Draw tube
D. Moves the stage up and down to bring the
D. Coarse adjustment knob specimen into focus
E. To fine focus the image when viewing at
E. Fine adjustment knob the higher magnifications
F. Hold the slides in place
F. Stage clip

II. Optical/Illuminating

A. Aperture A. The measure of its ability to gather light

and to resolve fine specimen detail while
B. Diaphragm working at a fixed object distance
B. Controls how much light enters the
C. Condenser
substage condenser and, consequently, the
D. Mirror rest of the microscope
C. Gather wavefronts from the microscope
light source and concentrate them into a
cone of light that illuminates the specimen
with uniform intensity over the entire
viewfield
D. To reflect light from an external light
source up through the bottom of the stage

III. Magnifying

A. Eye piece / ocular A. Magnifies the image produced by the

microscope’s objective so that it can
B. Objectives
be seen by the human eye
-scanning B. Allow microscopes to provide
magnified, real images
-LPO
- Projects and scans a focused
-HPO stream of electrons over a surface
to create an image
- Observing and analyzing glass
-Oil immersion slide samples
- Observing fine details within a
specimen sample
- Increases the resolving power of
the microscope by replacing the
air gap between the immersion
objective lens and cover glass with
a high refractive index medium
and reducing light refraction.

CONCLUSION:

 A microscope is an instrument that helps us to observe small objects, even cells that
our naked eyes can’t be seen.