
Besides, the student will understand an offline electronic-based simulator suitable for measuring voltage parameters. Surprisingly, the results of this study can provide insight for beginners to understand essential topics in electrical engineering studies, e.g., the circuit topology, fundamental theory, and working principle of a voltage divider circuit. All simulators provide an attractive GUI, capable of simulating voltage measurements with 100% accuracy in terms of DC analyses, which is DC voltage (except the CW software, which is only 98%), and can be entered in any resistor value (except Ye and PhET software). Finally, the simulation results were compared with the calculation results. Afterward, the value of R 1 and R 2 were inserted into the simulation circuit to guarantee if the current V out value matched the initial V out.

Two scenarios were carried out: measuring the output voltage (V out) with known R 1, R 2, and DC source (Battery) as a voltage input (V in), then looking for R 1 and R 2 using four different calculation methods to obtain V out as expected.

The approach was simulated using popular offline simulators (i.e., Pr, CW circuit, and virtual mode, EWB, Mu, P, Ye, TS, QUCS, LTS, SI, and PhET). This paper reveals the voltage divider circuit to better understand the fundamental working principles in detail.
