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Physics Calculators MCP Server

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Physics Calculators is listed as active in the registry but did not answer our last check. It exposes 4 tools.

Physics calculators that show their work, plus the CODATA 2022 constants. Educational use.

The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.

Uptime history 5 days of history · worst day 2%
5 days agonow
17.6%
Uptime 24h
16 of 91 checks
4
Tools
read from the server
470 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http

Physics Calculators does not always answer

Over the last week it answered 30.6% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.

Three servers free · no card

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 13 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add physics-calculators --transport http https://usephysics.com/api/mcp
Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address
https://usephysics.com/api/mcp
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.physics-calculators]
url = "https://usephysics.com/api/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "physics-calculators": {
      "url": "https://usephysics.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "servers": {
    "physics-calculators": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://usephysics.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

calculate
calculate
Run one calculator by id with numeric inputs (keys from list_calculators, in the listed units). Returns every result with its unit, the formula, the Given → Formula → Substitute → Result working when the engine can derive it, and the URL of the solved page.
calculators
list_calculators
Every UsePhysics calculator: id (slug), name, category, formula, inputs (key, unit, default) and page URL. Optional category filter.
constant
get_constant
One CODATA 2022 constant by id, symbol or name (e.g. 'c', 'speed of light', 'planck-constant'): value as NIST prints it, machine-readable value, standard uncertainty (null = exact), unit, note, page and NIST source.
constants
list_constants
The CODATA 2022 constants UsePhysics keeps, grouped; optional group id filter. Values are NIST's.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://usephysics.com/api/mcp streamable-http answering 91 ms 13 min ago

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Physics Calculators — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Physics Calculators do?
It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: calculate, get_constant, list_calculators, list_constants. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Physics Calculators working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 16 of 91 checks got a reply (17.6%), average response time 470 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Physics Calculators still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
The registry lists Physics Calculators as active — why does it not respond?
The official MCP registry stores what the author submitted; it does not verify that the server still runs. We check the endpoint ourselves, and this one does not answer. Catalogues that copy the registry without checking will show it as working.
How do I connect Physics Calculators?
Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Physics Calculators need an API key?
No. Physics Calculators completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Physics Calculators?
It answers our handshake in 470 ms on average, which is faster than 25% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.