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GATE Electromagnetic Fields: Effect of dielectric medium, Capacitance of simple configurations – Previous Year Questions

5 GATE previous year questions on Effect of dielectric medium, Capacitance of simple configurations (Electromagnetic Fields, Electrical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2015 EE Q46 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A parallel plate capacitor is partially filled with glass of dielectric constant 4.0 as shown below. The dielectric strengths of air and glass are 30…
  2. GATE 2018 EE Q55 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – The capacitance of an air-filled parallel-plate capacitor is 60 pF. When a dielectric slab whose thickness is half the distance between the plates, is…
  3. GATE 2019 EE Q30 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A co-axial cylindrical capacitor in Figure (i) has dielectric with relative permittivity r1=2. When one-fourth portion of the dielectric is replaced…
  4. GATE 2021 EE Q52 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider a large parallel plate capacitor. The gap d between the two plates is filled entirely with a dielectric slab of relative permittivity 5. The…
  5. GATE 2025 EE Q50 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – An air filled cylindrical capacitor (capacitance C 0) of length L, with a and b as its inner and outer radii, respectively, consists of two coaxial…