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Triple Integrals in Cylindrical and Spherical Coordinates
Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates
Triple Integrals in Spherical Coordinates
Example: Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates (1)
Example: Triple Integrals in Spherical Coordinates (2)
Practice: Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates (1)
Practice: Triple Integrals in Spherical Coordinates (2)
Practice: Triple Integrals in Cylindrical Coordinates & Spherical Coordinates (3)
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Cylindrical coordinates in three dimensional space is similar to the polar coordinates in two dimensional space:

Cylindrical coordinates are related to Cartesian coordinates as follows:
Similar to polar coordinates:
The following integration could be rewritten in terms of cylindrical coordinates:
if region is defined as:
Then, the general form of a triple integral using cylindrical coordinates will be:

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- A sketch of spherical space is shown below:

- Spherical coordinates are related to Cartesian coordinates as follows:
where that is the angle in the space.
is the angle measured from the positive -axis.
is the distance from the origin.
- We also have:
- If region in spherical space is defined as follows:
Then, the triple integral of over is equal to:

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Calculate the volume under within the cylinder , and between the planes and .


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Calculate the volume of the solid that is above the cone and below the sphere .
Evaluate using cylindrical coordinates.
Evaluate , where E is the region portion at with
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Let S be the region on the first octant which lies above and below Express in:
a) Cylindrical Coordinates
b) Spherical Coordinates
c) Evaluate using either