Quasistatic electromagnetic approximation

A quasistatic electromagnetic approximation neglects propagation delay over a vacuum device of characteristic size $L$ when $\omega L/c\ll 1$. It does not automatically discard every time derivative: an Ampere-Maxwell law calculation in a capacitor gap must retain displacement current. In a medium use the relevant propagation and response scales. The dominant approximately static electric field can be used to calculate a smaller induced magnetic field, provided the corrections to the dominant field remain small. Near a resonance or for a large distributed circuit, the size criterion alone may not justify an instantaneous lumped model.