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The document describes the volume of a sphere with a hole drilled through its center. It provides a diagram and defines the known length h and unknown radius R. It then sets up and solves the integral to calculate the volume of the remaining solid, showing that the volume is equal to 34πh3, which was the claim.

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Sphere Cyl

The document describes the volume of a sphere with a hole drilled through its center. It provides a diagram and defines the known length h and unknown radius R. It then sets up and solves the integral to calculate the volume of the remaining solid, showing that the volume is equal to 34πh3, which was the claim.

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Volume of a sphere with a hole drilled through its centre.

Andrew DeBenedictis.

In the diagram below a hole is drilled through the centre of the sphere. We know the length
h (2h is the height of the removed cylinder) and nothing else!. The claim is that the volume
of the remaining solid is 34 πh3 . i.e. the volume of a sphere of radius h!

r0

R
2h

Figure 1: We know the length h and nothing else. What’s the volume of the remaining solid?

The volume element in cylindrical coordinates:

dV = r dθ dr dz
√
0 ≤ θ < 2π, r0 ≤ r ≤ R 2 − z 2 , −h ≤ z ≤ +h,
where R is the radius of the original sphere (a quantity we do not know). The quantity r0
is the radius of the bored out cylinder:
√
r0 = R2 − h2 . (1)

Integrating over the upper-half of the solid and multiplying by two:


√
Z h Z R2 −z 2 Z 2π
V = 2 dV
z=0 r=r0 0
√
Z h Z R2 −z 2 Z 2π
= 2 r dθ dr dz
z=0 r=r0 0
h2
 
2 2
= 2πh R − − r0 .
3

By putting in r0 from (1) we get


4
V = πh3 .
3

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