OSCILLATION THEOREMS FOR SECOND-ORDER NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

In this paper, we are concerned with the oscillations in forced second order nonlinear differential equations with nonlinear damping terms. By using clasical variational principle and averaging technique, new oscillation criteria are established, which improve and extend some recent results. Examples are also given to illustrate the results.

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