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Been really happy with the Toshiba Satellite laptop series (not the detachable screen one!). I was hesitant for windows 8 at first, but using win8 on a touchscreen is actually not that bad, and if you use a smart phone you pick up how the OS works immediately. It's still really fast and very...

agreed /Agreed. Structural steel is not a Do It Yourself home project.

Need more info. I'm not quite sure the application or if this is just a problem from your homework. But there is a lot that goes into structural design and we need more information about what you're setting it on and your perimeter structure. Is it sitting on masonry wall? what kind? is...

To answer samieee's original concern, a normal watch (digital or standard) counts the oscillations of a quartz crystal (Which is normally 32,768 Hz). And atomic clocks as zapper pointed out count by measuring the radiation of caesium 133 atom.