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Tube in a Sphere

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A cylindrical tube is inserted in a sphere. You can produce partial tubes and spheres in various ways. The volume of the remaining part of the sphere is
4
3
π
3
h
, which is the volume of a sphere of radius
h
, where
h
is half the length of the tube.