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You're logging a signal that you believe only has meaningful content below 500 Hz, so you set your ADC to sample at 1 kHz, satisfying Nyquist on paper. After collecting data, you see a spurious low-frequency wobble that shouldn't exist physically. What's a likely explanation, and how would you confirm it?

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