Microscope/ magnification

Advantages of light microscope

Advantages of light microscope

• Cheaper

• Can see colours

• Can see live specimen

Disadvantages of light microscope

• Lower magnification

Advantages of electron microscope

• Higher resolution

• Higher magnification

Disadvantage of electron microscope

• Can only see dead specimen

• No colour

• Expensive

• mm to μm

• μm to nm

• mm to nm

• x 1000

• x 1000

• x 1000000

Magnification equation

I = AM