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Question 50: Sensors and Industrial Instrumentation
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Question 50
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A parallel plate capacitive displacement sensor has a plate area of 2 cm
. The air gap between the plates is decreased by 0.1 mm from an initial value of 0.5 mm. The percentage change in the capacitance value is _____ %. (Assume permittivity as
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GATE IN 2026 · Paper 1
Instrumentation Engineering · Original paper archive
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- Instrumentation Engineering
- Question type
- Multiple choice (MCQ)
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- 2 marks
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