Front Cover; Solid State Physics, Volume 24; Copyright Page; Contents; CONTRIEUTORS TO VOLUME 24; PREFACE; CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS VOLUMES; SUPPLEMENTARY MONOGRAPHS; ARTICLES TO APPEAR SHORTLY; Chapter 1. The Pseudopotential Concept; I. Introduction; II. Why Plane Waves Do Not Work; III. Augmented and Orthogonalised Plane Waves; IV. The Operator Approach; V. The Scattering Approach; VI. The Cancellation Theorem; VII. Other Pseudopotentials; VIII. Orthogonality Hole and Nonlocality; IX. Sins; Appendix. The Linear Chain of Black Boxes.

Chapter 2. The Fitting of Pseudopotentials to Experimental Data and Their Subsequent ApplicationI. Why Pseudopotentials?; II. Excerpts from Pseudopotential Theory; III. Fitting Procedures and the Handling of Data; IV. Resulting Pseudopotentials for the Elements; V. Notes Added after the Manuscript Was Completed and in Proof; Appendix A: Mathematical Notes on Nonlocal Operators; Appendix B: Folding Down of the Secular Equation; Chapter 3. Pseudopotential Theory of Cohesion and Structure; Introduction; I. The Field Surveyed; II. General Pseudopotential Theory of Structural Energies.

III. Beyond Second Order Perturbation TheoryIV. Covalency; V. Survey of Applications; VI. Monovalent Metals; VII. Divalent Metals; VIII. Trivalent Metals; IX. Group IV and V Elements; X. Trends in the Periodic Table; XI. Alloys; XII. Miscellaneous Topics and Recent Developments; XIII. Conclusion; AUTHOR INDEX; SUBJECT INDEX.