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Applied Mathematics Letters 31 (2014) 34–40 Contents lists available at ScienceDirect Applied Mathematics Letters journal homepage: /locate/aml Oscillation criteria for second-order dynamic equations on time scales Ravi P. Agarwal a , Martin Bohner b , Tongxing Li c,∗, Chenghui Zhang d a Department of Mathematics, Texas A M University-Kingsville, 700 University Blvd., Kingsville, TX 78363-8202, USA b Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Missouri ST, Rolla, MO 65409-0020, USA c Qingdao Technological University, Feixian, Shandong 273400, PR China d School of Control Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong 250061, PR China a r t i c l e i n f o a b s t r a c t Article history: Erbe’s and Hassan’s contributions regarding oscillation criteria are interesting in the Received 9 November 2013 development of oscillation theory of dynamic equations on time scales. The objective of Received in revised form 9 January 2014 this paper is to amend these results. Accepted 10 January 2014 © 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. Keywords: Oscillation Delay dynamic equation Half-linear dynamic equation Second-order equation Time scale 1. Introduction The increasing interest in oscillatory properties of solutions to dynamic equations on time scales is motivated by their applications in the engineering and natural sciences. We refer the reader to [1–19] and the references cited therein. In [10] and [12], the authors studied the oscillatory behavior of second-order dynamic equations r (t)x∆ (t)∆ + p (t)f (x (τ(t))) = 0