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GATE Electromagnetics: Maxwell's Equations – Previous Year Questions

14 GATE previous year questions on Maxwell's Equations (Electromagnetics, Electronics and Communication Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2015 EC Q34 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Consider a straight, infinitely long, current carrying conductor lying on the z-axis. Which one of the following plots (in linear scale) qualitatively…
  2. GATE 2016 EC Q34 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – Concentric spherical shells of radii 2 m, 4 m, and 8 m carry uniform surface charge densities of 20 nC/m2, -4 nC/m2 and s, respectively. The value of…
  3. GATE 2016 EC Q61 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – The current density in a medium is given by J = 4002(r2 + 4)a r Am-2 The total current and the average current density flowing through the portion of…
  4. GATE 2019 EC Q21 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – What is the electric flux ( E d a) through a quarter-cylinder of height H (as shown in the figure) due to an infinitely long line charge along the…
  5. GATE 2019 EC Q22 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – In the table shown, List I and List II, respectively, contain terms appearing on the left-hand side and the right-hand side of Maxwell's equations (in…
  6. GATE 2019 EC Q46 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Two identical copper wires W1 and W2, placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry currents I and 2I, respectively, in opposite directions. If the…
  7. GATE 2022 EC Q24 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – In a circuit, there is a series connection of an ideal resistor and an ideal capacitor. The conduction current (in Amperes) through the resistor is…
  8. GATE 2022 EC Q30 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Consider the following wave equation, 2f(x,t) t2=10000\,2f(x,t) x2. Which of the given options is/are solution(s) to the given wave equation?
  9. GATE 2022 EC Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – In an electrostatic field, the electric displacement density vector, D, is given by D(x,y,z)=(x3\,+y3\,+xy2\, k)\ C/m2, where ,, k are the unit…
  10. GATE 2024 EC Q16 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – Let i and j be the unit vectors along x and y axes, respectively and let A be a positive constant. Which one of the following statements is true for…
  11. GATE 2024 EC Q25 (1 mark, Multiple select) – Let (x,y,z,t) and u(x,y,z,t) represent density and velocity, respectively, at a point (x,y,z) and time t. Assume t is continuous. Let V be an…
  12. GATE 2025 EC Q49 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – A square metal sheet of 4 m × 4 m is placed on the x-y plane as shown in the figure below. If the surface charge density (in μC/m2) on the sheet is…
  13. GATE 2025 EC Q50 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – An electric field of 0.01 V/m is applied along the length of a copper wire of circular cross-section with diameter 1 mm. Copper has a conductivity of…
  14. GATE 2025 EC Q65 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Two resistors are connected in a circuit loop of area 5 m2, as shown in the figure below. The circuit loop is placed on the x-y plane. When a…