Finding the volume of part of a cylinder

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I have a problem concerning a cylinder, cut by an arbitrary plane which is perpendicular to an axis, z.

I know dz, the distance from centre of the cylinder to the plane. I know all dimensions of the cylinder. I know theta, the angle of rotation from the axis z.

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How do I calculate the volume of the cylinder above the plane? Is it possible? I've tried some trigonometry to get an integral based on the changing size of a circle segment... but it's getting very convoluted.