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Have you ever noticed car wheels looking as if they are spinning backwards instead of forwards?



This is due to the rotation rate of the structural elements of the wheels being just above the flicker fusion threshold frequency, around 60 Hz [1]. As the wheels spin faster, they just look like a blur.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flicker_fusion_threshold


Thanks. Very interesting.




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