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.

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.

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.

Professor McKeown is very passionate about physics and clearly cares about his students. I think he will become a very good physics professor. However, I have to say this quarter has been pretty difficult and disappointing. The professors slides consist of screenshots of the textbook. Then, during lecture he reads, verbatim, the screenshots of the textbook. His example problems in class are from the textbook. At a certain point in the quarter I just felt like I was wasting time going to class. I can read, so I dont need someone to be reading the textbook to me. He also spends a large amount of time deriving formulas. Sure that is interesting, but it is not necessary for the level of this course and honestly wastes time where he could be doing practice problems instead.
One more thing I will say is that by week 4 or 5 we were so behind the lab portion of this course that I literally had no idea what was going on. The lab topic was completely different from the lecture topics. I know that lecture and lab are separate parts of this course, however I found it very frustrating to complete pre-labs and labs with NO KNOWLEDGE of the topics being covered.
Overall, he has potential to be a great professor. It's rare to have one that cares so much about his students. I will say that for the most part he listens to our suggestions and complaints, which I appreciate. He is just a bit disorganized and it comes at the cost of your sanity and grades.

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.