Flipping PHYS Mechanics & Wave Motion with Online Homework

As an instructor for fundamental physics since 2007, I encounter students with very different background. Most of them are just graduated from high schools, who choose engineering or science as their major but not even have enough Mathematics skills or good study habits. Over the years I have seen ~20-35% failure rate (DFW grades) in my class (depending on semesters), not only students feel frustrated, I am quite stressed by the result. The purpose of this project is to decrease the gap between students and increase student success rate in my PHYS 4A/Mechanics and Wave Motion course. Particularly, I am adapting smartPhysics, which has well built prelecture activities and online homework system, so that I can increase class practice for students to work on examples and perform more demonstrations in class meeting time.