How to Correctly Use Substitution for Polar Coordinates in Integrals?

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i get an extra cos² thi term! WHY!
am i doing the substitution completely wrong?? or i forgot/left something out which i can not seem to see!

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4th line, [itex]dw_1= -w\sin \phi d\phi[/itex] unfortunately :(
 
oops, i meant to write dw1 = cos thi dw.
nevermind, i got it.
I have to use Jacobian matrix instead of what i did.
 
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