Volume of a Sphere

In spherical polar coordinates a volume element is  
\[dV=r^2sin \theta d \phi d \theta dr\]
  where  
\[0 \le 0 \phi \lt 2 \pi\]
  is the anticlockwise angle from the positive  
\[x\]
  axis to a line drawn from the origin to the projection of a point onto the  
\[xy\]
  plane and  
\[0 \le \theta \le \pi\]
  is the angle from the positive  
\[z\]
  axis to a line drawn to the point.

The volume of a sphere radius  
\[r\]
  is
\[\begin{equation} \begin{aligned} V &= \int^{2 \pi}_0 \int^{\pi}_0 \int^r_0 r^2 sin \theta dr d \theta d \phi \\ &= \int^{2 \pi}_0 \int^{\pi}_0 \int^r_0 [ \frac{r^3}{3} sin \theta]^r_0 d \theta d \phi \\ &= \int^{2 \pi}_0 \int^{\pi}_0 \frac{r^3}{3} sin \theta d \theta d \phi \\ &= \int^{2 \pi}_0 [ \frac{r^3}{3} (-cos \theta) ]^{\pi}_0 d \phi \\ &= \int^{2 \pi}_0 2\frac{r^3}{3} d \phi \\ &= [2\frac{r^3}{3}]^{2 \pi}_0 \\ &= \frac{4}{3} \pi r^3 \end{aligned} \end{equation}\]

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