A hint on a shortage of manpower in physics

Abstract

            Misinterpretation of Physics texts from foreign books into Thai has been found occasionally. Recently a clear evidence resulting from that kind of error was seen in common among Thai secondary school students of the whole country. It is the concept of Galileo’s falling bodies. They all wrongly claimed that Galileo dropped two bodies of different weights from the Leaning Tower of Pisa to the ground at the same time. More lately the same misunderstanding is found in a recently published Chinese science storybook. Another Thai physics storybook reports a more reasonable explanation about his experiment on an inclined plane, which is related to the freely falling bodies. Unfortunately, it gives a doubtful by pointing that Galileo uses his pulse to measure the falling times of the rolling down balls. In reality this could be impossible. These evidences show a long time confusion among people of the countries. Although using a commonsense can eliminate this simple issue, instead, people think physics is hard to understand. As a result they avoid taking physics as a major.