Spherical Cap - Application

Application

The volume of all points which are in at least one of two intersecting spheres of radii r1 and r2 is

,

where

is the total of the two isolated spheres, and

the sum of the two spherical caps of the intersection. If d 1+r2 is the distance between the two sphere centers, elimination of the variables h1 and h2 leads to

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