CODATA Physical Constants Reference

Inspectable records

Ledger state

The current ledger marks this instrument verified clean within the source-bound verification corpus.

Area

Physics — Kinematics/Projectiles/Orbits, Forces/Energy/Momentum, Rotational Dynamics, Gravitation, Oscillations/Waves, Optics, E&M Fields, Relativity, Quantum, Statistical Thermo

Tranche

tranche-6

Evidence ID

t6-134

Ledger rows

1

No ledger note is attached.

Review findings

The reference-table concept is appropriate and has no computational formula to verify. Verdict is NEEDS_REVIEW because the advertised inputs say only 'search/select constant' while the data requirement includes both CODATA 2018 and CODATA 2022; the required year-selection behavior is unspecified. The vectors use CODATA 2022 and should be made deterministic by adding catalog_year to the instrument input contract.

Formula and scope findings

No additional record

Unit assumptions

• Values are interpreted as CODATA recommended values in SI units.
• The catalog vintage must be explicitly selected; CODATA 2018 and CODATA 2022 can differ, especially for measured constants and derived constants.
• Uncertainties use CODATA parenthetical notation: for example, 6.67430(15)×10^-11 means (6.67430±0.00015)×10^-11.
• Exact zero uncertainty is appropriate only for constants defined exactly by the SI, such as c, h, e, and k_B.
• Equivalent SI units must be treated consistently: N A^-2 is equivalent to H m^-1 for permeability, and J s is equivalent to kg m^2 s^-1 for h.

Boundary hardening

BREAK_CLAIMED · SELF_FLAGGED

The principal hazards are ambiguity and boundary handling: an empty query may be mishandled as an invalid zero-length operation, an extreme selector may be coerced instead of rejected, and the query e can return the wrong sign if elementary charge and signed electron charge are not explicitly distinguished. The CODATA-year branch also produces different alpha values and must not be silently mixed.

Errata and corrections

No applied erratum is attached to this unique-name record.

Inspectable example

4 review vectors are recorded. One source-bound sample is shown below.

{
  "inputs": {
    "search": "speed of light in vacuum",
    "constant_symbol": "c",
    "catalog_year": 2022
  },
  "expected_outputs": {
    "value": "299792458",
    "unit": "m s^-1",
    "symbol": "c",
    "uncertainty": "0 (exact)",
    "codata_year": 2022
  },
  "working": "1. Search the catalog for the canonical name 'speed of light in vacuum'. 2. Select symbol c and CODATA 2022. 3. Return the tabulated exact SI-defined value: c = 299792458 m s^-1. 4. Because the value is exact by definition, uncertainty = 0."
}

Related workflows

No source-defined multi-instrument workflow membership is recorded.

Sources and evidence

These pointers bind the page to evidence. They do not grant authority or collapse verification into deployment.

• VERIFIED_LEDGER.json · VERIFIED_CLEAN
• evidence-tranche6/tranche6-results.json
• BOUNDARY_HAZARD_CATALOG.json