In this paper we discuss trigonometric and hyperbolic systems on time scales. These systems generalize and unify their corresponding continuous-time and discrete-time analogies, namely the systems known in the literature as trigonometric and hyperbolic linear Hamiltonian systems and discrete symplectic systems. We provide time scale matrix definitions of the usual trigonometric and hyperbolic functions and show that many identities known from the basic calculus extend to this general setting, including the time scale differentiation of these functions.

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