Yes, for damping.
Decibels are the scale used for measuring the volume of sounds.
Hertz and decibels .
The abbrevation used for decibels is dB.
Negative rational numbers are used in the same way that negative whole numbers are used: they are simply the additive inverses of their positive counterparts.
Exponents are negative numbers. This is used in math a lot.
So the prime numbers don't bump into each other.
directed numbers are used for counting, measuring, adding, subtracting, dividing and multiplying. hope this helps which it probably wont :)
to separate negative and positive numbers
The tally marks I'm familiar with cannot have negative numbers because they are used to count real things and there cannot be a negative apple
Decreases are often represented by negative numbers. Temperatures outside of most tropical regions are occasionally negative on the commonly used scales.
They are used for very cold temperatures.
Basically you can use positive and negative numbers whenever there are two opposites. For example: going up a certain number of meters may be described by a positive number; going down by a negative number - or the other way if you prefer. Earning money may be described by a positive number, spending money, by a negative number. In a coordinate system, "right" might be positive, whereas "left" might be negative. Etc.