Abstract
Self-consistent field calculations by the expansion method were carried out for the ground states and several excited states of atoms and ions of Al and Cu. The results for the total energies of the states computed represent very accurately the absolute Hartree-Fock solutions. The wave functions were calculated with the requirement to satisfy identically the cusp condition so that they can be considered to be particularly accurate in the immediate vicinity of the nucleus. Comparison with experiment is carried out in particular for the calculated energy levels.