Faxen's 2nd Law: Learn How to Calculate Viscous Torque

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Can someone show me how Faxen's 2nd law for the viscous torque on a rotating sphere comes to be?

I know tau_(r phi) = -3 mu Omega sin(theta)

Torque is integral of vec(r) cross vec(f)

But I can't get the right answer so I am doing something very wrong

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