Professor: Roger McWilliams
Department: Physics & Astronomy
College: University of California Irvine, Irvine, CA
Rating # 1
Overview:
- Course: 7E
- Grade Received: C-
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Along with Arasasingham, McWiliams is the one of the best professors here. This is what education should be like. Learned a lot in his class.
Rating # 2
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7E
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 2.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
Don't let the reviews fool you, he's a good professor and he wants you to do well.
Rating # 3
Overview:
- Course: 7D
- Grade Received: B+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
I took Prof. McDubs for both 7D and 7E. If you are someone that loves problem solving this is the professor for you. His quizzes are easy if you do all of the optional homework. His tests are based solely off of the in-class experiments so you must go to lecture, take notes, and participate especially since the test are open note.
Rating # 4
Overview:
- Course: 7E
- Grade Received: A-
- Overall Rating: 3.5
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Despite all the bad press here, Professor McWilliams was quite honestly the coolest guy for the job. His curves are very generous, as the averages across almost all assignments was a 50%. He also posts a practice midterm and final, both mimic the actual tests closely. The quizzes are based on homework and are curved well. Take him if you can.
Rating # 5
Overview:
- Course: 7D
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
GO TO CLASS. LITERALLY, write down EVERYTHING he says, even the tiniest detail. Record lectures if you have to. He'll mention which problems will be on the midterm and final, so write that down. For quizzes, do the homework problems and you should be fine. Don't be afraid if you get a 40% on a test, that will be the average and curved to a B-.
Rating # 6
Overview:
- Course: 7E
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
He is a very enthusiastic professor, but he lacks clarity. Going to lecture was not helpful at all. I do enjoy his demonstrations, but he never goes over practice problems. He does not prepare you well enough for quizzes or exams.
Rating # 7
Overview:
- Course: 7E
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
McWilliams is a great guy and brilliant physicist; he knows his stuff. However, I've attended every lecture, read the textbook, and I still can't do the problems on his sample final. He doesn't show you how to do problems, just derives equations and expects us to understand. Quizzes and tests problems seem to come from nowhere in the book.
Rating # 8
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7D
- Grade Received: C+
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He only grades using a midterm and final with four quizzes. He doesn't let you use calculators for complex calculations during quizzes, but the midterm and final are open book. The questions are based on the smallest details of lecture which test attendance, not understanding. Makes everything more difficult than it needs to be.
Rating # 9
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7E
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 1.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Dude al you guys don't get it. This guy is a BEAST. Would take over and over again.
Rating # 10
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS3B
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.5
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: Yes
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
I personally think McWilliams is a great professor. It's a tough course, and you need to work for it. He's very approachable and if you pay attention to the demos and make sure to ask him what he's trying to demonstrate, it's doable and enjoyable personally. Take GOOD notes, quantify the demos, read, and do homework problems, and it should be ok.
Rating # 11
Overview:
- Course: P3B
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
McWIlliams is a great guy, but as a teacher, he is horrible. Class is literally a magic show with a whole bunch of demos. These demos are so important to doing well in the course, but he doesnt really tell us why things are happening. He doesnt explain the science. He spends a lot of time deriving equations. I just hope the curve is generous.
Rating # 12
Overview:
- Course: 3B
- Grade Received: A+
- Overall Rating: 5.0
- Course Difficulty: 3.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Four homework quizzes worth 20% midterm 35% final 45%. tests are tough but doable. make sure to pay attention to demos. if youre struggling others are too. tests are open book and open note.
Rating # 13
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7D
- Grade Received: Not sure yet
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
This guy is just out of this world. I honestly feel bad for anyone who has to take him after me. Has a ridiculous grading system, 20% Quizzes, 35% Midterm, 45% Final. All his exams are based off lecture demonstrations, so be very awake at 8:00am class. His average on exams are 40-50% even though they are open booknotes. If you take him, I'm sorry!
Rating # 14
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7D
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Some people just shouldn't teach. McWilliams is a great and practical guy but just not helpful. He lectures you about earthquakes, water conservation & car parts. He naturally assumes everyone is an engineering major & we already know everything he's saying. "Let the physics guide you." He always says that, but the physics never helped my grade...
Rating # 15
Overview:
- Course: 7D
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: Yes
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
He doesn't teach your typical physics class. Midterms and finals are based on in-class demonstrations, and be prepared to remember things about earthquakes' equations.
Rating # 16
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7D
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
Everything he tests you on is from lectures. The class is about electricity and magnetism and yet he talks about earthquakes extensively, and he actually tests us about it asking us how to find the distance between waves. He also tests in detail about specific numbers provided in the lectures where he does demonstrations.
Rating # 17
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICS7D
- Grade Received: C
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: Yes
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
Honestly f this guy. He teaches the class like we know absolutely everything and are completely able to use this the world at ease. He expects us to remember all the equations and most of the constants. He is ridiculous. DO NOT TAKE.
Rating # 18
Overview:
- Course: 7D
- Grade Received: C
- Overall Rating: 1.5
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Mandatory
Comment:
I really hated the way this professor taught. He tries to make his students think conceptually, and doesn't want the students to just memorize facts. I get his view; however, after attending every lecture and getting a B in the class, I honestly feel like I have leaned nothing useful about electricity or magnetism at all. Do not take his class.
Rating # 19
Overview:
- Course: PHYSICSH90
- Grade Received: B
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 4.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: Not Mandatory
Comment:
He's a pleasant guy, tries really hard to make lectures interesting with lots of demonstrations. But he is sometimes unclear about what he wants on assignments, and the exams were not very similar to any practice problems we had done before. The class could've had more focus. In the end he curved the entire class so that everyone got ok grades.
Rating # 20
Overview:
- Course: 3A
- Grade Received: N/A
- Overall Rating: 2.0
- Course Difficulty: 5.0
- For Credit: N/A
- Textbook Used: No
- Would Take Again: N/A
- Attendance: N/A
Comment:
overall, mcwilliams is an alright professor but the exams are really difficult:/
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