Professor
Daniel Mckeown
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2024 - Best professor or teacher I've had in my 14 years of school. This class had me learning complex, difficult material while at the same time feeling like a chill intro class. Instead of being expected to master these concepts and apply them to ridiculous problems (which leaves students lost and learning nothing), Professor Mckeown kept all problems relatively simple. HW was a bunch of easy problems and a couple hard ones, and after watching lecture and doing HW I was very comfortable with everything covered. If I needed extra help though, discussion was very helpful (I stopped going but apparently it had good extra problems and HW help), and I heard amazing things about the professor's office hours. Tests were very plug and chug (with equations provided), so I was never stressing that much. Professor Mckeown should 100% be in charge of the entire physics 1 series, as he's the only one in the department who seems to understand that although the material should be challenging, it is an introductory series.
Winter 2024 - Best professor or teacher I've had in my 14 years of school. This class had me learning complex, difficult material while at the same time feeling like a chill intro class. Instead of being expected to master these concepts and apply them to ridiculous problems (which leaves students lost and learning nothing), Professor Mckeown kept all problems relatively simple. HW was a bunch of easy problems and a couple hard ones, and after watching lecture and doing HW I was very comfortable with everything covered. If I needed extra help though, discussion was very helpful (I stopped going but apparently it had good extra problems and HW help), and I heard amazing things about the professor's office hours. Tests were very plug and chug (with equations provided), so I was never stressing that much. Professor Mckeown should 100% be in charge of the entire physics 1 series, as he's the only one in the department who seems to understand that although the material should be challenging, it is an introductory series.
Most Helpful Review
Winter 2024 - Overall, I would take this class again. Not a big Physics fan and bad at it too but this Professor made Physics manageable. Grades were composed of: Midterm 1, Midterm 2, Final, Homework, Quizzes, Lab Lectures: Recorded, not mandatory. Didn't find the lectures super helpful. Homework: Mastering Physics, graded on completion. There were A LOT of problems assigned for each chapter but it was CRUCIAL to do them and UNDERSTAND how to do them because his exams and quizzes were basically homework problems reworded. Do the HW thoroughly and you'd be fine on exams. Exams: Fair. MTC and FRQ, mtc often pulled from lecture examples, had multiple FRQ questions with different parts. Very doable but if you don't study enough you'll be very strapped for time. Quizzes were like one small HW problem. Grading: Very fair. If you did better on the final it would replace your lowest midterm score + 5 points EC.
Winter 2024 - Overall, I would take this class again. Not a big Physics fan and bad at it too but this Professor made Physics manageable. Grades were composed of: Midterm 1, Midterm 2, Final, Homework, Quizzes, Lab Lectures: Recorded, not mandatory. Didn't find the lectures super helpful. Homework: Mastering Physics, graded on completion. There were A LOT of problems assigned for each chapter but it was CRUCIAL to do them and UNDERSTAND how to do them because his exams and quizzes were basically homework problems reworded. Do the HW thoroughly and you'd be fine on exams. Exams: Fair. MTC and FRQ, mtc often pulled from lecture examples, had multiple FRQ questions with different parts. Very doable but if you don't study enough you'll be very strapped for time. Quizzes were like one small HW problem. Grading: Very fair. If you did better on the final it would replace your lowest midterm score + 5 points EC.