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A capacitor is simply two conductors in close proximity to each other, but not touching. This allows a charge to build up between them. It is entirely possible to build a small capacitor with a double sided printed circuit board. The area of the plates would be semi adjustable, in that you could cut out what you don't want.
You can estimate the capacitance of a parallel plate capacitor with the equation...
C = er e0 S / d
... where C is capacitance in farads, er is permittivity (also called dielectric constant), e0 is the electric constant, about 8.854 x 10-12 F m-1, S is area of overlap, and d is the distance between the plates. You would need to either know or measure the dielectric constant of the circuit board - for a vacuum, p is 1 - one way to measure is to build a test capacitor and measure its capacitance in a test circuit - perhaps an oscillator - and understand that (within limits) capacitance is proportional to the area of overlap and inversely proportional to the distance between the plates.
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That depends on the type of circuit you are talking about. Sometimes both an inductor and capacitor are both in parallel with each other. This is called a tank circuit. Sometimes they are both used in series. These are both examples of resonant circuits. Sometimes the inductor can be in parallel with an applied voltage and the capacitor in series. This is a form of high pass filter. On the other hand, the inductor can be in series and the capacitor in parallel to for a low pass filter.
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