Reflects the light rays on the material to be observed? of compound microscope
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The limitations on resolution (and therefore magnifying power) imposed by the constraints of a simple microscope can be overcome by the use of a compound microscope, in which the image is relayed by two lens arrays. One of them, the objective, has a short focal length and is placed close to the object being examined
A compound microscope also includes a body tube, which houses the lenses and keeps them at an appropriate distance apart; a condenser lens, which sits beneath the specimen stage and focuses light on the specimen; and an illumination system, which either transmits or reflects light from the object being examined. A means for focusing the microscope must also be given, generally with coarse and fine focusing settings.
A monocular compound microscope is the most basic type: it consists of a single tube with the objective at one end and a single eyepiece at the other. A single objective can be used in a binocular tube with a matched set of eyepieces to allow viewing with two eyes and therefore enhance comfort and acuity; beam-splitting prisms are used to transmit half of the light from the picture generated by the objective to each eye.