In the picture above an eight year old girl reaches up to harvest apples whilst dropping her basket of collected apples. But her initial strategy for harvesting apples was spinning the empty basket around and around using her arm to gain speed like a discus thrower. She then aimed the basket at the tree branch as she let go of the basket handle. Will she be successful at knocking the apples off the branch? Do you want to help her? Try the simulation below to understand the exact moment at which the girl should let go of the handle with the aim of hitting the apples off tree! Give advice to your classmates.