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प्रश्न
Draw a labelled ray diagram showing the formation of image by a compound microscope in normal adjustment. Derive the expression for its magnifying power.
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उत्तर
A simple microscope has a limited maximum magnification (≤ 9) for realistic focal lengths. For much larger magnifications, one uses two lenses, one compounding the effect of the other. This is known as a compound microscope. A schematic diagram of a compound microscope is shown in Fig. The lens nearest the object, called the objective, forms a real, inverted, magnified image of the object. This serves as the object for the second lens, the eyepiece, which functions essentially like a simple microscope or magnifier, produces the final image, which is enlarged and virtual. The first inverted image is thus near (at or within) the focal plane of the eyepiece, at a distance appropriate for final image formation at infinity, or a little closer for image formation at the near point. Clearly, the final image is inverted with respect to the original object. We now obtain the magnification due to a compound microscope. The ray diagram of Figure shows that the (linear) magnification due to the objective, namely h'/h, equals
`"m"_o = "h'"/"h"= "L"/f_o`
where we have used the result
`tan beta = ("h"/f_o ) = ("h'"/"L")`
Here h′ is the size of the first image, the object size being h and fo being the focal length of the objective. The first image is formed near the focal point of the eyepiece. The distance L, i.e., the distance between the second focal point of the objective and the first focal point of the eyepiece (focal length fe) is called the tube length of the compound microscope. As the first inverted image is near the focal point of the eyepiece, we use the result for the simple microscope to obtain the (angular) magnification me due to it equation m = `(1 + "D"/f)`, when the final image is formed at the near point, is
`"m"_"e" = (1 + "D"/f_"e")`
When the final image is formed at infinity, the angular magnification due to the eyepiece is
`"m"_"e"` = (D/fe)
Thus, the total magnification, when the image is formed at infinity, is
m = `"m"_o"m"_"e" = ("L"/f_o)("D"/f_e)`
Clearly, to achieve a large magnification of a small object (hence the name microscope), the objective and eyepiece should have small focal lengths.
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