  The properties of warm symmetric and asymmetric nuclear matter are
investigated in the frame of the Thomas-Fermi approximation using a recent
modern parametrization of the effective nucleon-nucleon interaction of Myers
and Swiatecki. Special attention is paid to the liquid-gas phase transition,
which is of special interest in modern nuclear physics. We have determined the
critical temperature, critical density and the so-called flash temperature.
Furthermore the equation of state for cold neutron star matter was calculated.
