Is this the volume of a solid of revolution of a sector about a point in space along phi

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Consider this sector S what's area is the following: $$ A = \frac{1}{2}r^2\theta $$ Where theta is in radians. I would like to create a solid out of this sector by rotating it about $\phi$ with the following: $$ V =\int_{0}^{2\pi} \Big[\frac{1}{2}r^2\theta\Big]\phi \:\:d\phi $$ which evaluates to: $$ V =\frac{r^2\theta \phi^2}{4} $$ and then let $\phi = 2\pi$ (upper bound of the integral): $$ V =\frac{r^2 \pi^2\theta}{2} $$ Is this correct?

Edit: Add picture, red is S, light green is surface, dark green is inside cross section. This is a bad picture, the dotted lines should be straight not curved. Image of the solid

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The first thing to notice about your solution is that it is dimensionally incorrect. Volume should be proportional to $r^3$.

A solution can had very quickly with Pappus's (2nd) Centroid Theorem: the volume of a planar area of revolution is the product of the area $A$ and the length of the path traced by its centroid $R$, i.e., $2πR$. The bottom line is that the volume is given simply by $V=2πRA$.

Without any further ado, the properties of the sector are

$$ R=\frac{2r\sin\alpha}{3\alpha}\\ A=\alpha r^2\\ V=2\pi RA=\frac{4}{3}\pi r^3 \sin\alpha $$

where $\alpha$ is the half-angle of the sector.