McKeown is an amazing guy and a very fair professor. He makes physics accessible to everyone. His quizzes and exams are very fair and similar to both his lecture and the homework. He gives adequate homework to really help you understand the lecture material. I really like the textbook as well, and I find it really helpful for me to tune into his lectures and then read the corresponding section of the textbook after. Considering how I took 1B in Winter 2023 (over a year by now) and how I got a C+ in that class (worst class I've ever taken at UCLA especially as a CS major who will never need physics in my life), take it from me: McKeown makes physics accessible to EVERYONE. I hate physics and I still do, but damn did I really enjoy his class. He's just an overall super nice and chill professor and I really appreciate how fair he tries to be. It's a shame that the UCLA physics department is so stingy with their GPA quotas because physics should not be made as hard as it is at UCLA, but I have faith McKeown is a step in the right direction for the future of UCLA physics.

The professor clearly cares about the class and the grades of individual students. The instruction is good (mostly directly from the book) and the exams are pretty fair in my opinion. You don't really need to study if you just do the homework and understand it which is nice. The thing I didn't like was that there would be 3 or 4 released homeworks at any given point and they were just due a month or more from the date they were posted. This meant it's more on the student to self-pace when it came to homework.

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.

McKeown passion for teaching really shows, as does the care he has for his students and for maintaining fairness. His efforts to rework the ways physics is traditionally taught truly is inspiring; I always felt respected in the classroom, both during exams and in classes. Quite honestly one of the best professors I've experienced since coming to UCLA.

McKeown passion for teaching really shows, as does the care he has for his students and for maintaining fairness. His efforts to rework the ways physics is traditionally taught truly is inspiring; I always felt respected in the classroom, both during exams and in classes. Quite honestly one of the best professors I've experienced since coming to UCLA.

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

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.

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.