Question

State whether true or false:

The image formed by a compound microscope is real, inverted and magnified.

• A. True
• B. False

Answer 1

The correct option is B False

A compound microscope is a microscope which uses a lens close to the object being viewed to collect light (called the objective lens) which focuses a real image of the object inside the microscope. That image is then magnified by a second lens or group of lenses (called the eyepiece) that gives the viewer an enlarged inverted virtual image of the object.

So the statement in question is false, we do not get a real image.