Ordinary Differential Equations and Mechanical Systems

1. Introduction.- 2. First order ODEs.- 3. Second order ODEs.- 4. Linear ODEs.- 5. Higher-order ODEs polynomial form.- 6. Systems.- 7. Theory and criteria of similarity.- 8. Model and modeling.- 9. Phase plane and phase space.- 10. Stability.- 11. Modeling via perturbation methods.- 12. Continualization and discretization.- 13. Bifurcations.- 14. Optimization of systems.- 15. Chaos and synchronization.