That will give us the volume of the sphere. The volume of cylindrical element is. The volume of the sphere is twice that.
V 4 3 p r 3.
D V p x 2 d y. To use spherical coordinates we can define a b and c as follows. One neat feature of this approach is that it DOES lead to a general method which WILL be used later in calculus - the so called slab method for finding volumes. It is true that the formula for the surface area of a sphere itex4pir2itex can be integrated to give the volume of the ball but again that is not deriving the formula.