Applications of Opial inequalities on time scales on dynamic equations with damping terms

Abstract

In this paper, we will employ some dynamic inequalities of Opial’s type on time scales to prove several results related to the spacing between consecutive zeros of a solution of a second order dynamic equation with a damping term. We also obtain several results related to the spacing between a zero of the solution and/or a zero of its derivative. As a special case, we will establish some new results for differential and difference equations with damping terms. For illustration, we will derive some well-known results obtained for differential equations without damping terms. The results yield conditions for disfocality and disconjugacy for dynamic equations with damping terms on time scales.