Interatomic Forces in Condensed Matter

The series is intended to present graduate textbooks that will bring students to the frontiers of current research in materials modelling as it is being practiced in both academic and industrial science and engineering. Finnis (Queen's U. Belfast) demonstrates how to derive various approximate schemes of total energy and force calculation, to help clarify the several models of inter-atomic forces that abound in the literature. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Mike Finnis is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and a Member of the Editorial Board of Reports on Progress in Physics.