Triple integral over a sphere in rectangular coordinates

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Homework Statement



Evaluate the following integral:

[tex] \iiint \,x\,y\,z\,dV[/tex]

Where the boundaries are given by a sphere in the first octant with radius 2.

The question asks for this to be done using rectangular, spherical, and cylindrical coordinates.

I did this fairly easily in spherical and rectangular coordinates, except for the fact that I got two different answers and I can't figure out where I went wrong! That's not a problem though because I can fix that.


The Attempt at a Solution



How would I do this problem in rectangular coordinates? My integral would look like this:

[tex] \int_{0}^{{\sqrt{4-x^2-y^2}}}\int_{0}^{{\sqrt{4-x^2-z^2}}}\int_{0}^{{\sqrt{4-z^2-y^2}}}xyz\,dz\,dy\,dx[/tex]

Which, without some clever transformations and an extremely messy Jacobian calculation, looks unsolvable.
 
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I think you need to rethink your bounds on that one...
 
How does this look then?

[tex] \int_{0}^{2}\int_{0}^{2}\int_{0}^{{\sqrt{4-z^2-y^2}}}xyz\,dz\,dy\,dx[/tex]
 
Hmm, MATLAB tells me that's zero.
 
Batmaniac said:
How does this look then?

[tex] \int_{0}^{2}\int_{0}^{2}\int_{0}^{{\sqrt{4-z^2-y^2}}}xyz\,dz\,dy\,dx[/tex]

That would be over a square in the xy-plane rising up to the sphere.

Projecting the sphere into the xy-plane gives you the quarter circle x2+ y2= 4, with [itex]0\le x\le 2[/itex], [itex]0\le y\le 2[/itex]. You can let x go from 0 to 2 but then, for each x, y ranges from 0 to [itex]\sqrt{4- x^2}[/itex].