OSCILLATORY AND ASYMPTOTIC BEHMIOUR OF A CLASS OF NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS OF THIRD ORDER

This paper deals with oscillatory /nonoscillatory behaviour of solutions of thirdorder nonlinear differential equations of the formwhere a,b,c E C([a,oo),R) such that a(t) does not change sign, b(t) 5 0, c(t) > 0,f∈C(R, R) such that (f(y)/y) ≥ β > 0 for y ≠ 0 and γ > 0 is a quotient of odd integers.It has been shown, under certain conditions on coefficient functions, that a solution of (1)and (2) which Las a zero is oscillatory and the nonoscillatory solutions of these equationstend to zero as t → ∞. The motivation for this work came from the observation that thewhere al b, c are constants such that b≤ 0, c > 0, has an oscillatory solution if and only ifand all nonoscillatory solutions of (3) tend to zero if and only if the equation has anoscillatory solution.