Ordinary Differential Equations with Applications to Trajectories and Vibrations, Six-Volume Set

Luis Manuel Braga da Costa Campos graduated in 1972 as a Mechanical Engineer from the Instituto Superior Tecnico (IST) of Lisbon Technical University. His tutorials as a student (1970) were followed by a career at the same institution (IST) through all levels: Assistant (1972), Assistant with tenure (1974), Assistant Professor (1978), Associate Professor (1982), Chair de Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (1985). He has been coordinator of undergraduate and post-graduate degrees in Aerospace Engineering since their creation in 1991. He is also coordinator of the Scientific Area of Applied and Aerospace Mechanics in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and director and founder of the Center for Aeronautical and Space Science and Technology.

• Book 1 – Linear Differential Equations and Oscillators. 1. Three Cases of CharacteristicPolynomials. 2. The Damped/Amplified and Forced Oscillator. Book 2 – Non-linear DifferentialEquations and Dynamical Systems. 3. Differentials and First-order Differential Equations. 4.Unsteady, Non-linear and Chaotic Systems. Book 3 – Higher-order Differential Equations andElasticity. 5. Special, Second and Higher-order Differential equations. 6. Buckling of ElasticBeams and Plates. Book 4 – Simultaneous Systems of Differential Equations and Multi-dimensionalOscillators.  7. Simultaneous Systems of Differential Equations. 8. Oscillations with SeveralDegrees-of-Freedom.  Book 5 – Singular Differential Equations and Special Functions.9.  Existence Theorems and Special Functions. Book 6 – Classification and Examples of DifferentialEquations and their Applications. Chapter 10. – Examples 1 to 20. Recollections – 500 Standards ofDifferential Equations and 500 Apllications. BackMatter – Indices and Bibliography