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How do I calculate the total heat content of a cubic foot (or cubic meter) of air at sea-level at any given temperature and humidity? I want to relate total heat content of air to a graph of Heat Index with temperature along the ordinate and Humidity along the abscissa. How do I calculate the latent and sensible heat for a standard measurement of air volume under static conditions?

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We compute the heat content of a cubic foot of air (or any ideal gas) at one atmosphere.

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The total heat content of a volume V of an ideal gas with pressure P is given by Q = 3PV/2. Thus, a cubic meter of air (or ...

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