Evaluate the triple integral (with spherical coordinates)

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Firstly sorry for my bad english,i have a one question for you(İ try it but i didn't solve it )

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i know problem will be solved spherical coordinates but i don't know how i get angles (interval) theta and fi ?
[tex]\int_{0}^{\infty}\int_{0}^{\infty}\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-\sqrt{x^2+y^2+z^2}}\,dxdydz[/tex]

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You get the angles by thinking about what the spherical coordinate variables mean. [itex]\phi[/itex] is the angle from the positive z-axis to the negative x-axis and, to cover all space, would normally go from [itex]0[/itex] to [itex]\pi[/itex]. Since you want z to stay positive, you want [itex]\phi[/itex] to go from [itex]0[/itex] to [itex]\pi/2[/itex]. [itex]\theta[/itex] goes around a complete circle in the xy-plane in going from [itex]0[/itex] to [itex]2\pi[/itex]. Since the first quadrant is 1/4 of that, [itex]\theta[/itex] goes from [itex]0[/itex] to [itex]\pi/2[/itex]. Finally, there is no upper limit on the distance from the origin to any point in the first octant so [itex]\rho[/itex] goes from [itex]0[/itex] to [itex]\infty[/itex].
 
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melihaltintas said:
[tex]\int_{0}^{\infty}\int_{0}^{ \infty}\int_{0}^{\infty}e^{-\sqrt{x^2+y^2+ z^2}}\,dxdydz[/tex]