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Grade 11General Physics

Answer the following question : Why must both the objective and the eyepiece of a compound microscope have short focal lengths?

Profile image of Jayant Kumar
12 Years agoGrade 11
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Profile image of Apoorva Arora
12 Years ago
As the angular magnification eyepiece produced by the eye-piece of a compound microscope 1s (25/f0+1)
As fe is small, the angular magnification will be large.
Further, magnification of objective lens is. v/u object lies close to u focus of objective lens u = f,. To increase this magnification ( v/f0).
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