Calculating the Volume of a Concave Lens Using Multiple Integration

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Homework Statement



A circular concave lens of radius 2 units, has two refracting surfaces described by z=1/2(x2+y2+1) and z=-1/2(x2+y2) What is the volume of the glass?


Homework Equations



Over a region R: V=[tex]\int\int\int dA[/tex]


The Attempt at a Solution



I have no idea how to start this. Polar coordinates, bounded regions I don't know anything apart from the fact that I need to use multiple integration.
 
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A line from [itex]z= (1/2)(x^2+ y^2)[/itex] straight up (parallel to the z axis) to [itex]z= (1/2)(x^2+ y^2+ 1)[/itex] has length 1 so the volume is simply the integral of "1" over the region, in the xy plane, the lens covers. And that is just the 1 times the area of that region! What is the area of a circle of radius 2?
 
The second surface is [itex]z= -(1/2)(x^2+ y^2+ 1)[/itex]. Its negative. Even so, I'm doing this question for an exam on monday out of practise for multiple integrals. So how would you do this using integration?