This text can be divided into two parts: the first deals with modeling of dynamic systems, passing through the so-called strong formulation to the concept of variational formulation, considering the basic tools of variational calculus and the Hamilton Principle. The concepts are exemplified by two structures that follows the whole text: a unidimensional cable and a plate. Still in the first part, the eigenvalue problem of continuous systems is presented and the properties of self-adjoint operators are shown. Throughout this stage and at the appendix, analytical solutions to the eigenvalue problem are developed. As to get the problems analytical solutions may be too ingenious or even impossible, another way is proposed: the use of approximate solutions, which is the theme of the second part of this text. It starts by presenting methods of discretization of continuous systems, exemplifying them. The methods are used as tools for approximation of the vibration modes. The Ritz, Galerkin and Collocation methods are exposed. The functions used at the first and at the second are generated by the Finite Element Method and the modes approximated by this method are used to reduce the systems to then obtain the dynamic response to a given dynamic loading. The whole theory is reinforced with two practical problems at the end: one is about a cable during a supplying operation of an oil rig and the other is about a plate during a shot blastening operation. Last but not least, a chapter is devoted to the Collocation Method, where higher-order polynomials, the Chebyshev polynomials, are used to the approximation using different interpolation grids, the Chebyshev-Gauss and the Gauss-Lobatto grid.