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This is the last problem of the semester. Join us when we resume the
Problem of the Week challenges during the week of 29 January 2001.
In a circle of radius R, what is the volume of the solid
generated by revolving a circular segment of chord length a about
any diameter not intersecting the chord? For example, in the figure
on the left, the circle has radius R, the diameter is EF, the chord
AB has length a, and the circular segment being revolved is in
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