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Good Physics Books/Magazines to include in Physics P.S????

Hey guys, i am about to start writing my P.S, and i am gonna study Physics.
I am going to apply to UK'S top universities having achieved 2 A*S and 3 As in my A levels.

The problem is that i am a guy that never bothered to read anything else besides what the Edexcel Books had to offer about Physics and i am a bit worried cause i am not sure from where to start reading things that i could use to include in my Physics P.S as every other guy will do who is applying for Physics.

By searching this site and other sites, i found that i should not include books by Hawking because they are used a lot in the P.Ss and admission tutors don't like it. Any other books that i should avoid??

So as the title says plz make some suggestions about which books/Magazines should i take a look at, and that should be useful to use in my P.s
Scientific American although its not entirely physics does have some good physics articles.
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Hey guys, i am about to start writing my P.S, and i am gonna study Physics.
I am going to apply to UK'S top universities having achieved 2 A*S and 3 As in my A levels.

The problem is that i am a guy that never bothered to read anything else besides what the Edexcel Books had to offer about Physics and i am a bit worried cause i am not sure from where to start reading things that i could use to include in my Physics P.S as every other guy will do who is applying for Physics.

By searching this site and other sites, i found that i should not include books by Hawking because they are used a lot in the P.Ss and admission tutors don't like it. Any other books that i should avoid??

So as the title says plz make some suggestions about which books/Magazines should i take a look at, and that should be useful to use in my P.s

Scientific American is good as well. You can also read online about interesting physics developments(Higgs Field/Boson). You can also discuss interesting quantum effects.

You can also watch small TED lectures. I mean look at these:

The first one explores quantum locking and the second one shows a technique called femto-photography where they have actually been able to computationally create a video of light in motion.

Levitation with a superconductor

Imaging Light
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Thanks guys for ur useful responses. The prob is that am running out of time and i must have my P.S done in a week's time and i dont know where to start from. The truth is that any book that i will chose to read will be like in a rush, so what shall i do?? I am in a state of panic here cause ive read through a lot of P.Ss and all of them seem to have a good knowledge when the talk about quantum and things like that. As i am concerned i just have a short idea about quantum, photoelectric etc, and it would take me a great deal of time to read and comprehend all these.

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