Introduction to system dynamics, nonlinearities and linearization, Laplace transform, solution of linear differential equations using Laplace transform, transfer function of linear systems, dominant poles, block diagram and signal-flow graph, state diagrams, state-space representation of linear systems, time response analysis of first-order and second-order, mathematical modelling of electrical networks, translational mechanical systems, and electromechanical systems, undamped one-degree-of-freedom vibration of a rigid body using the equation of motion and energy methods, analysis of undamped forced vibration and viscous damped forced vibration.