Our department has been successful in implementing experiments into our introductory physics labs that incorporate a "hands-on, minds" approach. This proposal requests that we carry this approach into our upper division physics courses. We would like to add some experiments to these courses so as to illustrate principles of the courses and to further expose students to experimental methods and techniques. These experiments would be done outside of class as homework. We are requesting equipment in order to do the following experiments:

1. High Temperature superconductors.
2. Video capture equipment, camcorder, tripod, and video analysis software.
3. Temperature distribution across a metal plate.
4. Software for simulations of charge and current distributions.
5. Particle behavior of light.
6. The uncertainty principle.
7. Particle in a box behavior.
8. Fabry-Perot interferometer.
9. Diffraction pattern from coherent sources.

We have equipment in our department to carry out other experiments not mentioned in this proposal.