Drilling a cylinder-hole with radius $b$ through a sphere $x^2+y^2+z^2 = 1$

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So I think I have solved this problem, however my result is different than the correct one and I am not sure what I am doing wrong.

We have a sphere $x^2+y^2+z^2 = 1$, through this sphere a cylinder-hole with radius $b$ is drilled in the middle. We want to determine $b$ if we would like that the remaining volume of the sphere is half of the original volume of the sphere (which is $4\pi/3$, so we want the new volume to be $2\pi/3$).

My idea is to calculate it by calculating the volume of a sphere where the $xy$ plane projection has the radius $b$ to $1$ instead of $0$ to $1$.

So I describe this "new" sphere with polar coordinates:

$x = rsin(\theta)cos(\phi)$

$y = rsin(\theta)sin(\phi)$

$z = rsin(\theta)$

where $\theta:[0,\pi ], \phi:[0,2\pi]$ and $r:[b,1]$.

We solve this using a triple integral like this:

$\int_0^{2\pi}\int_0^{\pi}\int_b^{1} r^2sin(\theta)drd\theta d\phi$ = $2\pi\int_0^{\pi}sin(\theta)d\theta\int_b^{1} r^2dr$ = $2\pi[-cos(\theta)]_0^\pi[r^3/3]_b^1$

= $4\pi(\frac{1}{3}-\frac{b^3}{3})$

This integral is the volume of the remaining volume of the sphere after drilling. Thus:

$4\pi(\frac{1}{3}-\frac{b^3}{3})$ = $\frac{2\pi}{3}$

Which after solving results in $b=\sqrt[3] \frac{1}{2}$

According to my material, the correct solution is $b=\sqrt{ 1-(\frac{1}{4})^{1/3}}$

In my calculations, if I instead said that $b$ should go from $0$ to $1$ then I get the volume of a sphere, $4\pi/3.$ So I have no idea what I'm doing wrong, or if maybe I have found an error in the material.

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Spherical coordinates are not useful for this problem. Your description of the "hole" is not correct. Use instead cylindrical coordinates. The "hole" is then described as $$ 0\le r\le b,\quad 0\le\theta\le2\,\pi,\quad-\sqrt{1-r^2}\le z\le\sqrt{1-r^2}. $$