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Comsol 5.0 Capacitor

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Hi everyone, brand new to COMSOL here. So I'm trying to learn how to use COMSOL to simulate a parallel plate capacitor for a project in one of my University's labs. But I'm having some trouble setting up boundaries.
I'm following the tutorial pdf at: www.comsol.com/model/download/195195/models.acdc.capacitor_dc.pdf
However, in one of the steps, titled "Terminal I" on page 10 of the pdf, it says to choose "terminal" under the Boundaries drop-down on the Physics toolbar. No such option exists for me; I have "Ground", "Electric Potential", "Surface Charge Density", "External Surface Charge Accumulation", "Zero Charge", "Electric Displacement Field", "Periodic Condition", and "Thin Low Permittivity Gap", but no Terminal.
Note that I'm using the Classkit License version of COMSOL Multiphysics 5.0 on one of my school's computers, so I know that some of the features of a full version are disabled (I've seen other tutorials that use things I don't have access to), but this seems like such a basic, integral thing, I can't imagine that this isn't included in the software I have available.
If anyone could help point me in the right direction, I'd greatly appreciate it. Also, if you have any resources you can direct me to for COMSOL beginners, that'd be wonderful as well
Thanks!

0 Replies Last Post Jun 13, 2015, 7:26 p.m. EDT
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