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All: Please see any physics book.  There is, for example, a more complete if necessarily roundabout explanation at http://books.google.com/books?id=MJWsO2rMpWkC&pg=PA167&lpg=PA167&dq=why+does+a+gas+heat+up+under+compression%3F&source=bl&ots=Un-N_9MP0V&sig=OTnbcDiLaPyzMvwLCI4XSvvDjzY&hl=en&ei=V3g7SunJA9SytweFotj9Dw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3

The books that have this information tend to state either friction among the molecules themselves or with the surrounding walls of the cylinder.  The heat comes from more molecules hitting the walls at greater speed...

neesee's response of the general formula holds in ideal condition, but does not get into where the heat comes from, which was the point of the initial question, yes?  Or maybe some of us read it another way.

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