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Microscopy Flashcards

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Image formation on a curved surface

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  • Lenses are curved surfaces.
  • If light rays meet, they form an image.
  • Angle of refraction depends on refractive index of lens.
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Principal light rays

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  • Parallel ray: Parallel to optical axis
  • Central ray: Passes through center of curvature.
  • Focal ray: Passes through focal point
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Lens combinations

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  • Lenses are combined in a compound microscope. (Eyepiece and objective)
  • Image magnification can be manipulated by changing distance between the lens and specimen and distance between 2 lenses.
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Refractive power

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Degree to which a lens is able to converge or diverge light.
D = 1 / f

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Lens equation

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D = 1/f = 1/i + 1/o

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Image formation by the light microscope

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Diagram with object, objective and eyepiece lenses, images, and eye.

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Rules of image formation

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Diagrams with F, 2F (Real/virtual, Upright/inverted,…)

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Concepts of magnification and angular magnification

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  • Magnification is I/O size.
  • Angular magnification is tanB/tanA
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Magnification in the light microscope

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M = I / O = i / o

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Oscillations

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Movement back and forth around an equilibrium.

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Diffraction on an optical grating

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  • Optical grating: Large number of closely spaced slits.
  • A structure with periodic optical properties separate light of different wavelengths and refracts them at different angles.
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Polarization of light

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Unpolarized light (electric field vector can be found in any plane that contains direction of propagation) becomes polarized light (electric field vector only in 1 plane) by an optical filter

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Types of waves

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Wave is a disturbance that carries energy.
- Transverse waves: Direction of oscillation is perpendicular to direction of propagation, Electromagnetic waves, vacuum.
- Longitudinal waves: Direction of oscillation is parallel to direction of propagation, Sound, requires a medium.
- Matter wave: e.g. electrons

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Limit of resolution of the light microscope

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  • Smallest noticeable distance between 2 points.
  • Abbe’s formula: = 0.61 * wav/nsinw (image forms in microscope only if at least first order maxima enters the objective lens)
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Phase contrast microscope

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Turns phase differences and converts them to amplitude differences, therefore intensity differences which can then be detected by the eye. (For studying live unstained cells)

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Huygens-Fresnel principle

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Every wave propagates so that every point of its primary wavefront serves as a source of secondary wavelets advancing with same speed and frequency of primary wave.

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Polarization microscope

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  • Makes brief ringing details of specimen visible. (Cell membrane, striated muscles,…)
  • Microscope has polarizer, illuminates specimen with linearly polarized light.
  • Other side of specimen has analyzer at 90deg. From polarizer, at this angle view is dark.
  • Only light that was rotated by birefringent parts of specimen pass, so only these details are visible.
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Wave diffraction

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When light passes through a slit which is near the size of the wavelength, it spreads around the slit. Ties to Huygen’s principle explaining diffraction pattern.

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Interpretation of the color of light

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  • Colors can be separated by wavelength.
  • In our eyes, we have cells which can sense different frequency of light.
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Wave interference

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  • Constructive interference: Same phase (crest meets crest)
  • Destructive interference: Opposite phases (crest meets trough)
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Wave nature of light

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Phenomena which prove wave nature of light:
- Diffraction
- Interference
- Polarization

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Dual nature of light

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  • Can behave like a wave
  • Can behave as matter (photoelectric effect) energy packed in quanta depending on frequency.
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Matter waves

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  • Matter can exhibit wave-like properties
  • De-broglie’s hypothesis: Wavelength = Plank’s constant / Momentum (m*v)
  • (Davisson-Germer experiment proved that electrons scattered formed diffraction patters)
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The electromagnetic spectrum

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Entire distribution of electromagnetic radiation according to frequency or wavelength, and their respective photon energies.

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The photoelectric effect
- E = hf - When a photon delivers enough energy to an electron causing it to leave the atom. - Proves quantized nature of light (photon) and thus the particle nature off light. - Einstein
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The electron microscope
- Small wavelength of electron allows for much higher resolution in EM. - TEM: Uses electrons passing through the sample to create an image. - SEM: Creates image by detecting reflected/knocked-off electrons. - Electron gun (tungsten filament), High voltage for acceleration of electrons, condenser, electromagnetic lenses.
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Photon energy, the eV scale
- E = hf - Covert to eV by dividing by charge of electron, 1.6 x 10^-19 - The amount of K.E in an electron that is accelerated in an electric field of 1 volt.
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Interpretation of momentum of light: optical tweezers
- Photon Momentum = h / wavelength - Optical tweezers: utilize the photon momentum to trap/control the movement of very small objects.
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Models of the atom (Dalton, Thomson, Rutherford)
- Dalton: Showed that matter was made of indivisible particles (atoms) which can not be broken down further. - Thompson: Discovered that atoms have electrons which were stuck throughout the positively charged substance. - Rutherford: Showed that all positive charge was in the middle (nucleus) (Rutherford and Chadwick discovered protons and neutrons)
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Wave nature of the electron
- Electrons behave like waves in certain situations (diffraction) - Wavelength calculated = h / momentum - Davisson Germer experiment.
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The bound electron, quantum numbers
- Principal QN (n): Size of atom, from shells. (1, 2, 3,…) - Azimuthal QN (l): Shape (0, 1, 2,…) - Magnetic QN (ml): Orientation (-l,… , l) - Spin QN (ms): Spin (-1/2, 1/2)
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Bohr's atomic model
Electrons in an atom can only occupy certain distinct orbits around the nucleus.
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Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle
- One cannot know all parameters describing a particle at a given time. - E.g. when momentum is calculated, there is more uncertainty about its location. - Due to wave nature of particles. - We cant know position and speed of a particle.
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Physical foundations of the periodic table
- Numbered according to increasing atomic number/Proton number - Size increases down a group, and decreases across a period. - Every group number has the same number of valence electrons. - Ionization energy increases across a period, and decreases down a group. - s, p, d,… blocks
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Franck-Hertz experiment
- To prove Bohr’s atomic model stating that electrons exist in quantised state within the atom. - Tube filled with Hg, electron emitting cathode, grid, and anode. - In order to interact with Hg atoms, a specific amount of energy had to be given to the electrons by voltage. - Measuring current at end of tube makes it possible to measure how much energy went to atoms, and how much was left over.
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Potential energy of interatomic interactions
- Atoms in a molecule are organized in fixed positions in which the molecule stores the least potential energy. - Most stable form - P.E = E attraction + E repulsion
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Electronegativity
- Strength of which an atom can hold onto its electrons and ionize other atoms. - Smaller atoms with high atomic number are more electronegative. - Fluorine is most electronegative. - Higher electronegativity atoms pull electrons towards them (causing polarity in molecules)
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Scanning probe microscopy
- Can form an image of an atomic size object by detecting various interactions depending on probe. - Atomic force microscope (AFM) measures van der waals force between probe and sample. - Probe connected to cantilever, laser beam. - Measures change in position of cantilever
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Primary and secondary bonds
- Primary bonds: Covalent, Ionic, Metallic - Secondary bonds: Dipole, Van Der Waals, hydrogen bonds
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Resolving power of the atomic force microscope.​
- Resolution fractions of a nanometer. - Allows the study of strength and length off chemical bonds and the detail of molecular structure.
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