Prof. Goodstein is the author of State of Matter (Prentice Hall, 1975; Dover, 1985) and more than 200 scientific articles. He is the Vice Provost of Caltech, and has served as chairman of the Caltech faculty. His recent research has been in the fields of adsorption and desorption, two-dimensional matter, phase transitions, the transition from two-to three- dimensional matter, and also the propagation and transmission of thermal phonons in solids, all studied by various experimental means. He was project director and onscreen host of the award-winning science series, The Mechanical Universe that was broadcast on PBS stations starting in the fall 1985.
Lysek, La Madrid, Day and Goodstein, The Melting of Unsaturated Capillary Condensate, Langmuir 9, 1040-1045, (1993)
Day, Lysek, La Madrid and Goodstein, Phase Transitions in Argon Films, Phys. Rev. B 47. 10716 (1993)
Day, La Madrid, Lysek and Goodstrin, Multilayer krypton phase diagram, Phys. Rev. B 47, 7501 (1993)
Day, Lysek, La Madrid, Weichman and Goodstein, Evidence for preroughening transition and a disorder flat phase in solid argon and krypton, Physica B, 194-196 (1994) 449-450
Lysek, M. J.; LaMadrid, M. A.; Day, P. K.; Goodstein, D. L. Heat-capacity of Multilayer Methane on Graphite - Phase-transitions in the 1st 4 Layers. Physical Review B Condensed Matter. 1993.