Keim, Nathan  

He is a Great lab professor but a bad lecture professor. Given, it was his first quarter teaching he really didn't portray the material well (especially with his atrocious handwriting). My high school AP Physics B class that briefly touched on the material of this course taught me more than Keim. Nice guy but needs more experience. Take somebody else while he gets experience with people who don't go on poly ratings. If you're forced into him, don't worry, it could be worse.

His First Quarter so there are many things he is still figuring out. He is a nice,reasonable guy who is very passionate about physics and teaching. His lecture was boring at times and homework was graded harshly. Hard to fully understand material with just his lectures but doing the homework made the class not too bad. With time I think he'll be a solid professor. As of now... could be much worse.

Overall he was a good professor. His tests are not too crazy, but he does provide equation sheets and if you do all the homework (online) you should get the idea enough to do okay on the quizzes and tests. The first test is intimidating for he didn't give us a clear idea what would be on it, he was very vague answering questions about it. They are a little harder than the homework but nothing you haven't seen before if you did the homework, so don't worry too much. He is pretty funny. His only drawback is in the recognizing student difficulty category. Sometimes his voice/demeanor lets it show when he thinks there is a stupid question, so he does not really invite questions or discussion in the classroom, but I don't think he is purposefully rude, and he is still willing to answer questions.

Keim was one of my favorite physics teachers at this school. You can tell he really knows what he is talking about and the homework prepares you very well for his midterms. He's really nice and approachable during office hours. His class will challenge you and it's not an easy A, not even an easy B but if you put in the time on the homework you'll do just fine in his class

Ok, here's the deal. Yea, if you do the homework, you'll do okay. Yea, if you go to office hours, you'll do okay. But your success has absolutely nothing to do with how he teaches. The week before our second midterm, he realized he hadn't taught us everything, so he just wrote the chapters and sections on the board that we needed to read on our own. He spends a lot of time on the derivations of equations, but he goes so fast that nobody knows what he's doing anyways. He's written equations on the board and not even defined the variables that are in the equation. He puts practice problems on the overhead and has everyone hold up their answer, A, B, C, or D, but his explanations of the right answer are brief, or he makes a student in the class try to explain it to everyone else. You get an equation sheet on the midterms and final, but it doesn't include a lot of the equations, so you still have to memorize a lot, on top of conceptual understanding that you pretty much have to do on your own or in office hours because the lecture is useless. The homework is on loncapa, which is a terrible, terrible site. It asks you to pull values from graphs that are virtually unreadable, and has a 7 try maximum but doesn't offer tips when you answer incorrectly. The optional homework is about 20 questions per chapter, and although he posts the solutions, some of them are on topics not covered fully in class. GOOGLE, YOUTUBE, AND PHYSICS MAJORS ARE YOUR FRIENDS IF YOU ARE IN THIS CLASS.

Keim spends most time in class talking about the concepts and deriving the equations. He does not show you how to use the equation and does no examples in class. He gives no resources for the midterms and final so you really have no idea what's going to be on it. Very sub par teacher would not recommend.

Keim is nice and treats students well, just doesn't know how to completely convey the material needed to do well on his exams. He frequently has to correct the wording on his problems (which often makes the problem more confusing) so his class was frustrating. Nice guy, so if you are stuck with him, it is not the end of the world.

Keim is a terrible lecturer. He knows the information well but conveying it to the students is what he struggles with. Also, a lot of his assignments and requirements are similar to those in a middle school class, for example: he wants your binder organized in a specific way that doesn't even work for organization and actually is extremely confusing, or he makes you turn in "written answers" of a specific online question that you have to do for homework, and you won't get full credit unless you detail out an entire page worth of a simple plug and chug question, including drawings and assessments of a self explanatory answer.

He is a very nice teacher but he struggles a lot to present the information in a clear way and his tests are way harder than anything he gives you all quarter. I had a high A and ended up getting a D on the final. If you can switch out do it but you'll survive with him

I don't know if professor Keims has completely changed his teaching from last quarter, but his class is very reasonable. He is very good at explaining things conceptually and is good at answering and explaining questions on the mathematical side should you have them. It is clear he very knowledgable on the subject and is happy to explain questions even out of the scope of the class. Overall one of the best physics professors I have had here.

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Dr. Keim is an above average physics professor. His weekly quizzes are worth 45% of your grade but they are reasonable and he curves them if the class does not do well. There is a lot of bad professors in the physics department so if you get Keim, I would be appreciative rather than disappointed. His polyrating of 2 does not serve him justice.

Dr. Keim was an okay professor, but you are going to have to put in a lot of your own time (in office hours, suggested problems, other internet sources) to get a very good grade. I was in his "experimental" class where it was three 2-hour sessions a week with lab and lecture combined, but I wouldn't really recommend it. We ended up doing a lot of small labs that we couldn't really prepare for beforehand (as you would in a regular 3-hour lab session), and they were often due within the class period. He also wasn't very helpful explaining to us how to set up our labs, so we spent a lot of time just trying to figure out what we were supposed to do. Pay a lot of attention to the weekly assessments, as they are the largest part of the grade (we didn't have any midterms, just weekly assessments) and definitely add up at the end of the quarter. I never knew what to expect on the weekly assessments because doing the homework, labs, and reading over notes didn't necessarily prepare me; there would always some stuff that I had never thought of before or that I felt we hadn't gone over. Dr. Keim as a professor gives you the very essential things you need to know, but he expects you to derive some of the more specific but necessary equations on your own (and he won't include them on the equation sheet). He also runs a pretty tight ship (he is pretty strict about late work, missing class, and missing weekly quizzes), but maybe doesn't have the experience or confidence to really support his decisions on how he wants to run his class. You'll be fine if you take him, but physics is a difficult subject for me and he didn't really help me change my mind on that.

Alright, I got out of this class with a C-, because he curved it up from a D. lol it was clutch, but he assigns way too much homework through his LON CAPA... even though it only accounted for 10%. 40+ problems/parts a week. Not kidding... he isn't a great lecturer, but he runs the lab well. Advice: always communicate with your group. He doesn't help establish that collaborative atmosphere to begin with so you gotta do it yourself. 25% lab grade is pretty helpful though. I wouldn't recommend Dr. Keim (married to wissel btw).

Dr. Keim is an incredible instructor and I could not have been happier with the course. Physics 133 is a very difficult class to understand and Dr. Keim tried his best to make sure that we understood the content well and in my opinion, has succeeded in that. I think the only thing the class is missing is variety. 90% of the class is lecture and 10% of the class is lab which makes for a fairly boring 2-hour block but other than that, I think that the class is incredibly well structured and taught.

Keim is one of those teachers who doesn't understand that when everyone struggles with his class it means he's not a good teacher. His biggest failure as a teacher is his blatant refusal to explain things. He almost never lectures and only ever answers questions with other questions. This was my second time taking electricity and magnetism (not at cal-poly) and honestly, I understand it worse after having him. None of his homework is relevant to what you learn in class and he's not really willing to help you with it. His grades his quizzes super unfairly. He wants these crazy long explanations as if you're explaining your answer to someone who has never taken a physics class. If you don't include every single stupid obvious assumption make he marks you off. He also never gives you answers to anything you do - the labs in class, the tutorials, the homework, the quizzes, nothing. It's ridiculously hard to study for the final when all you have is your only-partially-correct work. Honestly, the only thing that's going to help you in the class is a Chegg account

Not done taking the class yet but this dude is fucking everyone up this quarter. This Craig and Erik looking guy doesn't know how to teach the class. Maybe its just because of the content being taught or just his teaching style, but the point is you're going to get fucked. All he does in class is go over how things work conceptually, but doesn't do any examples that involve the physics and math at all. Then assigns homework that has nothing to do with what he did in class, but the math that he didnt go over. You'll have to do A LOT of your own teaching. The lab is decent, its fun but challenging. LabView is a piece of shit, you'll hate it. Don't let the first week of class fool you with simple stuff like combining resistors and capacitors, it gets much harder hella fast. Keim is an amazing and nice guy, but he can definitely improve his teaching style

He seemed very uncertain every lecture. During some of his examples, he would have second doubts once a student challenged him. He is not very approachable, and comes across as an asshole. I do not recommend taking one of his courses, and would avoid him at all costs. I'm surprised Cal Poly hired him to begin with.

Dr. Keim is a lot better at teaching labs than lectures. He's smart, but a bit inexperienced when it comes to lecturing, so sometimes he's hard to follow. If you NEED to learn the material by lecture only, take someone else. But if you're willing to supplement lectures with homework, self-teaching, and office hours, he is a great professor. He is very approachable and always happy to help if you ask for it. A bit awkward in person but very nice and well-meaning.

-If you pay tuition to hear the expert in the room educate you, you won't get that in this course. -Once Keim actually begins the 50 minute lecture, there are (on avg.) 40 minutes left. In those 40 min. you'll have about 10 min. of worksheets or talking about something that you don't know anything about with your peers, thus you'll only recieve 30 min. of lecture. -During the lecture, you might have one or two examples on the material. -The homework and other assignments don't correlate to the lectures. -The textbook is great if you are looking to it as a reference, and NOT a learning tool. -Keim has a difficult time stating his expectations for the students. -There are no solutions for the homework, so you have no idea if your doing the anything correctly. Since, you have no idea about the homework, you will have no idea what to do on the quizzes. -I highly recommend you take a basic circuits class in the fall within the EE dept. e.g, EE 321. Just take a circuits course with someone that has a little bit of an ability to TEACH. -Ultimately, if someone told me that Kim has no idea how to teach, I would agree with them 100%. GOOD LUCK!

What else is there to say? Fine person, nothing interesting. Class was meh... Blah, blah, blah... Fine person.