An undergraduate laboratory experiment to study the magnification and limit of resolution of an electron microscope, appropriate to a physical optics course, is described. Polystyrene latex spheres of known diameter are used to obtain the magnification. The experiment introduces the student to some of the techniques of electron microscopy.
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