The type of friction that is related to our experiment would be sliding friction (i.e: the force resulting when pushing or pulling an object over a surface). In this case, pulling the different weighted wooden blocks across the netball court would result in sliding friction. The link below tells us how to measure static sliding coefficient of friction with a ramp. It is a little complicated, though.
http://www.school-for-champions.com/science/experiments/expfriction_static_coeff_ramp.htm
That page is a great find! Now, that method obtains the coefficient of friction, not friction itself. Moreover, it obtains the static coefficient of friction, not sliding friction. You will need to try to make sense of what you are reading, or else you will end up with a lot of info and not knowing what to do with it. Measuring the friction can be a very straightforward process - you have learnt some of that in sec one already (hint hint)
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