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How Microscopes Work

Friday, April 4th, 2008 – running time 04:57
Dr. Kiki creates a rudimentary microscope from scratch and breaks down how they actually work. (popSiren)

Learn more about the history of the microscope here: http://www.az-microscope.on.ca/history.htm

And if you want to build your own, you'll need the inside of a paper towel roll, some tin foil, an eyepiece and a lens. For parts, go to http://www.opticsplanet.net/microscope-accessories.html.

Highlights
high school ( 0:48 ) paper towel ( 3:39 ) inverted ( 2:49 ) magnified ( 1:47, 2:48 )

Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )

" What the stereotypical images of the scientists involved the person in a white lab coat just like me hearing into microscope at something they've been growing in the laboratory. And while whenever is growing in that little that is probably very interesting it's the microscope itself that we are interested in today. The first microscopes were invented in the late fifteen hundreds and at long last eleven experience to delve into the world and they are very very tiny. Since that early invention the microscope has become a common tool used by scientists all around the world. There's several different kinds of microscopes in use today and they come a long way since those very simple first designs. Yet the concept that underline my -- can be had not changed one bit. The microscope that you used -- high school biology class with recalled a compound like microscope. Why -- well -- because they use light to let you see things all up close and personal and compound because it has more than one Laurent. You can create and very rudimentary compound microscope but just to magnifying glasses. Let's take a closer look at these preflight hours straight here to take its first glass. And using it you focus and expand the image of that the flowers. And then I'm going to take that it -- And you get to focus on the image of the first you can see that image becomes. Expensively larger any it's pretty exciting. The lenses had it by convex shape which free tracks are bent light coming from the flower. Because of the distance between the length. And the object the light passing through her little of the land takes up a larger portion of the field of heat of -- than the flower well. So the flower appears -- magnified. The magnified image of the flower is called its virtual image and it appears tier I on the same side of the land as the flower. However microscopes are just -- magnifying glass is in order to -- very small objects with clarity and and lenses need to be contained at. I there into that -- so that the only light reaching here I comes from what ever it is that you're looking. The basic nine -- compounds like microscope require at least 212. Lenses the objective of the time any Nike. The first -- the objective that focused on what anger you are inspecting and -- Light from not object so that it can verges at some distance but called the focal distance. To create a projected picture we call it the real limits of the object within the microscopes to. Real images occur at the convergence of rays of light they can be viewed recorded or projecting even like -- images on a movie screen. Really images produced by the objective in a microscope are magnified and inverted relative to the original. The second land that you look -- is called the -- or the ocular lens. It focuses on and magnifies the upside down real image of the object just like a magnifying glass -- a larger version of the object inverted. Making it even more complicated lenses nowadays are usually complex that several lenses that when combined to create a better image than just a single -- and I'll -- it out. Now in case you're wondering if possible to make your very microscope. You're going to need to purchase an objective lens and I peace now and when dealing with land is the more you pay at the better they're going to be excited saying it. I purchased these from an online dealer of microscope part. Yes very she eat -- and all you're going to need to create a microscope body suit I'm living at paper towel tubes that I covered in some shiny tape. To make it fancy you know I enrolled in the paper -- and then really rolled it up so that a lot of this can fit in either and so he can stick the objective -- here the link to that is very highly important remember the EP IDs will be the correct distant. Run any objective to allow it to focus accurately on the real image that up in -- it. And that distance -- depended on your lenses but it's normally about a 160 millimeters. To reduce shaking if he'll need this stage to put it on the united holding your hand. A simple structure can be built out of a few pieces of whether or at DNA clamp or something like that. Monopolies. Find -- a look at -- a look at this little paper flower here and he let comes of kind of exciting. Remember when you're using a microscope you're not really looking at something but at a representation. Of what ever that something is. Who. Doolittle two philosophically Armey think I'm gonna go find some more things to examine Theron Jessica had. You."

" What the stereotypical images of the scientists involved the person in a white lab coat just like me hearing into microscope at something they've been growing in the laboratory. And while whenever is growing in that little that is probably very interesting it's the microscope itself that we are interested in today. The first microscopes were invented in the late fifteen hundreds and at long last eleven experience to delve into the world and they are very very tiny. Since that early invention the microscope has become a common tool used by scientists all around the world. There's several different kinds of microscopes in use today and they come a long way since those very simple first designs. Yet the concept that underline my -- can be had not changed one bit. The microscope that you used -- high school biology class with recalled a compound like microscope. Why -- well -- because they use light to let you see things all up close and personal and compound because it has more than one Laurent. You can create and very rudimentary compound microscope but just to magnifying glasses. Let's take a closer look at these preflight hours straight here to take its first glass. And using it you focus and expand the image of that the flowers. And then I'm going to take that it -- And you get to focus on the image of the first you can see that image becomes. Expensively larger any it's pretty exciting. The lenses had it by convex shape which free tracks are bent light coming from the flower. Because of the distance between the length. And the object the light passing through her little of the land takes up a larger portion of the field of heat of -- than the flower well. So the flower appears -- magnified. The magnified image of the flower is called its virtual image and it appears tier I on the same side of the land as the flower. However microscopes are just -- magnifying glass is in order to -- very small objects with clarity and and lenses need to be contained at. I there into that -- so that the only light reaching here I comes from what ever it is that you're looking. The basic nine -- compounds like microscope require at least 212. Lenses the objective of the time any Nike. The first -- the objective that focused on what anger you are inspecting and -- Light from not object so that it can verges at some distance but called the focal distance. To create a projected picture we call it the real limits of the object within the microscopes to. Real images occur at the convergence of rays of light they can be viewed recorded or projecting even like -- images on a movie screen. Really images produced by the objective in a microscope are magnified and inverted relative to the original. The second land that you look -- is called the -- or the ocular lens. It focuses on and magnifies the upside down real image of the object just like a magnifying glass -- a larger version of the object inverted. Making it even more complicated lenses nowadays are usually complex that several lenses that when combined to create a better image than just a single -- and I'll -- it out. Now in case you're wondering if possible to make your very microscope. You're going to need to purchase an objective lens and I peace now and when dealing with land is the more you pay at the better they're going to be excited saying it. I purchased these from an online dealer of microscope part. Yes very she eat -- and all you're going to need to create a microscope body suit I'm living at paper towel tubes that I covered in some shiny tape. To make it fancy you know I enrolled in the paper -- and then really rolled it up so that a lot of this can fit in either and so he can stick the objective -- here the link to that is very highly important remember the EP IDs will be the correct distant. Run any objective to allow it to focus accurately on the real image that up in -- it. And that distance -- depended on your lenses but it's normally about a 160 millimeters. To reduce shaking if he'll need this stage to put it on the united holding your hand. A simple structure can be built out of a few pieces of whether or at DNA clamp or something like that. Monopolies. Find -- a look at -- a look at this little paper flower here and he let comes of kind of exciting. Remember when you're using a microscope you're not really looking at something but at a representation. Of what ever that something is. Who. Doolittle two philosophically Armey think I'm gonna go find some more things to examine Theron Jessica had. You."