ON THE MICROSCOPIC NATURE OF THE YOUNG MODULUS
S. O. Gladkov UDC 520.1+539.4 On introducing the Van der Waals forces and Kittel mechanism of coupling into consideration, a physical approach to analytical computation of the Young modulus E has been outlined. By using a numerical analysis, a nontrivial behavior of the dependence of E on the atomic mass of an element has been predicted. Moscow State Regional University, 10a Radio Str., Moscow, 105005, Russia. Translated from Inzhenerno-Fizicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 79, No. 4, pp. 197-199, July-August, 2006. Original article submitted December 14, 2004; revision submitted May 11, 2005.