TY - JOUR AU - Akande, Jean AU - Kêgnidé Adjaï, Damien Kolawolé AU - Monsia, Marc Delphin PY - 2018 TI - Theory of Exact Trigonometric Periodic Solutions to Quadratic Liénard Type Equations JF - Journal of Mathematics and Statistics VL - 14 IS - 1 DO - 10.3844/jmssp.2018.232.240 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/jmssp.2018.232.240 AB - A mathematical theory is developed through generalized Sundman transformation to show the existence of classes of quadratic Liénard type equations which admit exact and explicit general trigonometric solutions but with amplitude-dependent frequency. The application of the theory to compute also exact and explicit general periodic solutions to nonlinear differential equations like inverted Painlevé-Gambier equations in terms of trigonometric or Jacobian elliptic functions is highlighted by some illustrative examples.