Electronics and Communication Engineering
GATE ECE purpose:exam-prep PYQs
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Questions 501–510 of 715. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 36
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Two identical copper wires W1 and W2, placed in parallel as shown in the figure, carry currents
and
, respectively, in opposite directions. If the two wires are separated by a distance of
, then the magnitude of the magnetic field
between the wires at a distance
from W1 is 
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The dispersion equation of a waveguide, which relates the wavenumber
to the frequency
, is
where the speed of light
m/s, and
is a constant. If the group velocity is
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In the circuit shown, the breakdown voltage and the maximum current of the Zener diode are 20 V and 60 mA, respectively. The values of
and
are 200
and 1 k
, respectively. What is the range of
that will maintain the Zener diode in the ‘on’ state? 
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The state transition diagram for the circuit shown is

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In the circuits shown, the threshold voltage of each nMOS transistor is 0.6 V. Ignoring the effect of channel length modulation and body bias, the values of Vout1 and Vout2, respectively, in volts, are

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The RC circuit shown below has a variable resistance
given by the following expression:
where
, and
. We are also given that
and the source voltage is
. If the current at time
is 1 A, then the current
, in amperes, at time
is __________ (rounded off to 2 decimal places). 
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Consider a unity feedback system, as in the figure shown, with an integral compensator
and open-loop transfer function
, where
. The positive value of
for which there are exactly two poles of the unity feedback system on the
axis is equal to ______ (rounded off to two decimal places). 
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Consider the homogeneous ordinary differential equation
, with
as a general solution. Given that
and
, the value of
, rounded off to two decimal places, is ______.Log in to check the answer
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Let
be a length-7 discrete-time finite impulse response filter, given by
, and
is zero for
. A length-3 finite impulse response approximation
of
has to be obtained such that
is minimized, where
and
are the discrete-time Fourier transforms of
and
, respectively. For the filter that minimizes
, the value of
, rounded off to 2 decimal places, is ______.Log in to check the answer
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Let a random process
be described as
, where
is a white noise process with power spectral density
. The filter
has a magnitude response given by
for
, and zero elsewhere.
is a stationary random process, uncorrelated with
, with power spectral density as shown in the figure. The power in
, in watts, is equal to ______ W (rounded off to two decimal places). 
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