You've just done an adiabatic compression of the ideal gas, you can pretend there is an ideal gas.

这就是对理想气体的,绝热压缩，---我们把空气近似作为理想气体处理。

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So expansion work, for instance, or compression work, is if you have a piston with a gas in it. All right, you put a pressure on this piston here, and you compress the gas down. This is compression work.

力乘以距离，就是功，功有许多种：,电可以做功,驱动电机与电风扇,磁力也可以做功。

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