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Figure 3. Use of immersion media matched to the objective can minimize the refractive index differences between the objective and the sample.

Figure 4. The pencil appears bent or broken because the refractive indexes of water and glass are different than that of air.

Magnification tells you the optical magnification the objective provides. The magnification you choose depends on what you want to see. The usefulness of magnification will be limited by your resolution. Making a big fuzzy blob of light even bigger won’t give you a better picture. Provided you have similar resolution at different magnifications, using higher magnification will allow you to see smaller things (such as organelles inside a cell) better. On the other hand, using a lower magnification will give you a better image of the big picture—such as a field of cells or interactions between cells.

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Imagine a light wave traveling toward you, on its way to entering your eye. In what direction is the electric field vibrating? (Light is both electric and magnetic, but it is usually the electric field that we are interested in.) Up and down? Sure. Left and right? Sure, why not. Both alignments are perpendicular to the propagation of the wave.

Determining whether a particular compound is right- or left-handed is determined by a particularly complicated set of rules that I don't understand (and don't care to understand at this moment), but being able to do so is especially important in organic chemistry. Something possibly useful to know for physics students is that all naturally occurring sugars are right-handed and all naturally occurring amino acids are left-handed (except glycine, which is not chiral).

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A typical hand consists of four fingers, a thumb, and a palm. (In this context, a thumb is not considered a finger.) Using the two hands of one person, it is only ever possible to get two of these parts to point in the same direction at the same time.

Figure 2. Same field of cells captured at different magnifications. Each magnification can offer different information, and the best choice for your experiment will vary depending on what you want to know.

Carvone is a member of a family of chemicals called terpenoids. Carvone has two enantiomers: a right-handed form which is found in the seed oils of caraway, dill, and anise; and a left-handed form which is found in spearmint oil. The difference in the two flavors is evidence that odor receptors have activation sites that are chiral. Your nose can smell the handedness of some molecules.

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Most light sources are unpolarized. The electric field is vibrating in many directions; all perpendicular to the direction of propagation. Polarized light is unique in that it vibrates mostly in one direction. Any direction is possible as long as it's perpendicular to the propagation, be it…

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All sugars produced by living things are right-handed molecules, but they may rotate the polarization of light in either direction. Glucose is the most abundant simple sugar (monosaccharide) and is the primary source of energy for all living things. Its name comes from the Greek word for sweet, γλυκος (glykos). Because it rotates plane polarized light clockwise it is also known as dextrose. Fructose is another simple sugar. Its name comes from the Latin word for fruit, fructus. Because it rotates plane polarized light counterclockwise it is also known as levulose.

Polarized light carries information. Magnetic fields, chemical interactions, crystal structures, quality variations, and mechanical stresses can all affect the polarization of a beam of light.

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Optical rotation is the ability that all chiral molecules have to rotate plane polarized light. Think of a polarized light wave as a hand on an analog clock pointing to the 12. Shifting that hand a bit to the right rotates it clockwise, shifting it to the left rotates it counterclockwise. The Latin words for right and left are dexter and laevus, respectively. Chiral molecules that rotate the polarization clockwise are said to be dextrorotatory, while those that rotate it counterclockwise are said to be levorotatory.

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Numerical aperture is a property of the objective that indicates how good the resolution can be in the image you collect (basically how much fine detail you can see).

A microscope objective is composed of a complex set of lenses and optics, and different objectives are designed for different imaging tasks. Capturing good images relies on choosing the correct objective.

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Each objective is designed for a specific immersion medium, which is marked on the objective. The main types of immersion media are air, oil, and water. It is important that you never put air objectives in oil or other liquids. Doing this will make the person in charge of the microscope really angry! The main purpose of using different types of immersion media is to minimize the refractive index differences that are present in the space between the objective and the sample. This includes the substrate (i.e., glass coverslip) that the sample is on and the imaging medium (i.e., buffer) that the sample is in. Minimizing this difference will result in better image resolution.

Chirality is the property of some objects that makes them distinguishable from their mirror images. Objects that exhibit chirality are said to be chiral. Human hands are the most easily accessible examples of chiral objects, which is why chirality is also often described as handedness. Chirality is just a painfully clever scientific word derived from the Greek word for hand — χερι (kheri).

The working distance is the distance between the objective and the cover glass, or between the objective and the top (or bottom) of whatever vessel you are imaging through, when your sample is in focus. When you are imaging through something thin, like a cover glass, you can use objectives with shorter working distances. But when you are imaging samples that are in a thicker vessel, such as a plastic plate or dish, you will probably need an objective that has a longer working distance. The working distance of an objective is often written on the objective. The working distance of the objective in this example is 7.4 mm. It is considered to have an ‘extra-long working distance’ and is abbreviated as ELWD on the objective.

Organic compounds that exist in both left and right handed forms are called stereoisomers. Those that are perfect mirror images of one another are called enantiomers. They demonstrate equal amounts, but opposite directions of optical rotation. In all other respects, their physical and chemical properties are identical. Their physiological actions may differ, because enzymes and other biological receptors can readily discriminate between many enantiomeric pairs. The other isomers may be indigestible or even toxic. Some are just interesting.

The objective is an essential part of the microscope and can greatly influence image quality. Objectives come with lots of information written on them, and most of it is written in code. But don’t worry; it’s easy to decipher.

Learn the correct magnification for your experiment and how to tell if your objective can be used with air, oil, or other immersion media.

Chemically bonding glucose and fructose produces sucrose — the stuff that most people today would call sugar (or maybe table sugar). Its name comes from the French word for sugar, sucre. The disaccharide sucrose is dextrorotatory but a mixture of the monosaccharides glucose and fructose is levorotatory. "Invert sugar" is made by heating a solution of sucrose and water. The two halves of the disaccharide separate (hydrolyze) and the rotation caused by the fructose dominates. The polarization of the solution has been "inverted" but the sugars themselves have not had their chirality inverted. Doing this would require the inversion of the molecule in three separate places, which is an extremely tricky thing to do.

Lots of times, you will hear people talk about the “NA” of an objective. “NA” stands for numerical aperture and its value partly depends on the refractive index of the material that is between the objective and the glass coverslip that your sample is on. In general, objectives with higher NA give you better resolution. Higher NA objectives often have higher magnification and use some sort of immersion medium. Immersion medium is used to alter the refractive index of the space between the objective and glass coverslip so that it is closer to the refractive index of the glass coverslip itself. This minimizes refraction and loss of light, ultimately giving you a better image.

Light will travel through different types of materials at different rates. When light travels through one material (such as air) and into another (such as water), the light is refracted. It appears bent. For instance, when you put a pencil in a glass of water and view the glass from the side, the pencil will look bent. This is because air has a different refractive index than water.

The Immersion medium is what's between the objective and the coverslip (or the bottom of the dish or flask that holds your sample).

Light is a transverse electromagnetic wave that can be seen by a typical human. Wherever light goes, the electric and magnetic fields are disturbed perpendicular to the direction of propagation. This propagating disturbance is what makes light a wave. The fact that the electric and magnetic fields are disturbed makes light an electromagnetic wave. The fact that it disturbs these fields at right angles to the direction of propagation makes light a transverse wave. In this section we will explore what it means to be transverse.