Question #97743
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Approx 1600x
Explanation:
This is for an optical microscope. Although magnification is often stated as power of objective x power of the eyepiece, this is very misleading. For example if you have a 1000x objective and a 20x eyepiece, you have a theoretical magnification of 2000x. This level of magnification is not usable. The image will be magnified 2000x, but the image will not be resolved properly. This results in a blurred image sowing very little detail. The reason for this is down to the refraction properties of light. All optical magnification is limited by something called the Rayleigh criterion. Information on this can be found online. Every objective on a microscope is limited by this, and thus will only resolve an image up to a certain magnification.
