suffice it to say that despite scraping through 1A with an A- with, arguably, an easy professor, i earned the first A+ of my academic career with Prof McKeown. exams are extremely generous, as are the quizzes. it's free points all the way down. i scored like an 85% on the very easy midterm out of sheer stupidity only to find that the professor had actually secretly curved (midterm was out of 100+ points but scored only out of 100) so i got 100 anyways. as with all other physics series classes you can just read the textbook and do practice problems. great experience

I am currently taking Prof Mckeown's class and it doesn't even matter to me what grade I get in the end to stress how amazing of a person Mckeown is and how much I would recommend his class to anyone who has the opportunity to take Physics with him. I have never had a professor that cares as much about his students and their success as Mckeown does. He is so smart and very passionate about physics and making it an enjoyable and not stressful subject to learn. I will say, I hope to see more concise slides and more verbal explanation during lecture, but that is my only minor complaint about his class.

The tests are so fair and he is super accommodating if there's a mistake (he gave full points to everyone on a question that had a typo on our midterm). His quizzes are made for you to do well on them if you go to lecture and do the homeworks. The homeworks can be challenging but in a good way and are graded on completion. He stresses that homework is made for when you're first learning something and you shouldn't be penalized for that. I recommend going to his office hours because he's super engaging and eager to answer any questions you may have, and you get to know more of his teaching style through it as well.

Again, I absolutely love his class (coming from someone who doesn't like physics). I feel encouraged and wanting to learn just because of how positive and passionate he is about the subject. I think it would've been unbearable with another professor.

gonna keep it short, this professor is sorta clueless when it comes to teaching. he is obviously knowledgeable about physics, but he comes to class and it seems like hes learning what his slides say as hes reading them. multiple times he got examples wrong in class or forgot how to do them and had to ask the class. BUT he curved like 20 points on an exam or 2, made the homework completion based, and made the quizzes just one of the problems from the homework.

ALSO, he got better as time went on which is a good sign for the future. you should have no problems getting an A in the class because he is very accomodating, but I didn't learn the material too well. hopefully his slides are more put together for the coming quarters because he has the personality traits to be a great professor.

Mckeown resparked the love of physics that Corbin c r u s h e d...
First and foremost, he absolutely stands by his policy that physics should be fun, interesting, and something that everyone can learn. He does his best to keep students engaged, either with the occasional demo, or by being a cool down to earth professor who can relate to our struggles of having some *awful* physics professors. His grading scheme is SUPER fair, his midterms and quizzes were a lot like the homework, and he really integrated student feedback into his lectures. His lectures could sometimes be a little disorganized, especially the further we went, and he had to cut out a significant chunk of material. I took him his first quarter teaching (ever), so hopefully that issue resolves itself as he becomes more comfortable. Overall, a 10/10 professor and one who will save your career in physics.

I don't know if it was because it was his first time teaching the class, but I have never had a professor as nice and accommodating to students' needs as Professor Mckeown. He was veryyyyy lenient on us (gave us formula sheets with all necessary equations during tests, huge curve on midterms and also allowed us to replace a midterm grade with the final grade if it was better), and gave full credit for homework as long as it was attempted. Quizzes were basically a random question from the homework that he chose, and tests were also heavily based on the homework and/or textbook questions covered in his slides. The lectures themselves were a little questionable (mostly consisted of the professor reading off screenshots of the textbook being pasted onto the slides) but were pretty accurate in terms of what the professor put on the exams + attendance was not mandatory.

i absolutely love this guy. amazing dude who actually listens to his students. if you get the opportunity definitely take physics with him. it would have been absolutely unbearable with any other prof.

McKeown is the best professor I've ever had. Overall he is just a funny guy. Very down to Earth, and wants to make physics accessible to everyone. Exams are probably the most fair I have had yet. He genuinely wants to help students learn and has the most office hrs out of any prof I have had yet. If nobody scores 100% on the exam, he will curve. 10/10 would take again, and honestly will miss seeing this guy pull up to lecture.

Professor McKeown is passionate about teaching and making physics entertaining for everyone. Hw is weekly MasteringPhysics and graded on effort, but this is his first quarter teaching so his grading policy may change in the future. Quizzes were based directly off the homework, and exam questions were also similar. Slides are used in lecture and use the textbook to explain concepts. Overall engaging and fun professor to have. 10/10.

Mckeown is one of the few professors who seem to genuinely care. He really enjoys what he does, understands how difficult physics is for a lot of people and genuinely wants you to succeed. The quizzes are pulled straight from the homework and exams are mostly reasonable, although sometimes too long with some vague wording for questions (though he recognizes this and accommodates different answers or curves). He’s not perfect (his lectures/slides aren’t always the clearest or most engaging) but otherwise an awesome professor. Highly recommend taking him and going to his office hours whenever you can.

Overall a very nice guy that's also very accommodating for any issues that may come up. The exam content was basically just topics from the homework, but some of the questions were extremely poorly written, and the exams overall had way too many questions (15 questions on a midterm?). There are also 4 quizzes during the quarter in addition to the 2 midterms, but the quizzes are very short (~10 minutes) and very easy. Supposedly after this quarter when he gets stuff figured out with CAE the quizzes will be unannounced so you have to attend lecture. This was his first quarter teaching here though, so hopefully things will change for the better.