Why are the magnification properties of microscopes and telescopes defined in terms of the ratio of angles and not in terms of the ratio of sizes of objects and images?
Answers
Answered by
3
Optical magnification is the ratio between the apparent size of an object (or its size in an image) and its true size, and thus it is a dimensionless number. Optical magnification is sometimes referred to as "power" (for example "10× power"), although this can lead to confusion with optical power.
shivanineha72000:
hlo
Answered by
0
Magnification properties of instruments are defined in terms of the ratio of angles due to following reasons:
--->Instruments like telescopes and microscopes are used to view objects placed at different distances.
--->Due to some physical factors, there is a relative change in heights not in the angle which the light emerging from them subtends on the lens.
Similar questions