Triple integral in different coordinate systems.

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My task is to write volume integral in 3 coordinate systems : Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical. This integral shows volume of intersection of 2 spheres, first with center at $(0, 0,-3)$ and radius $5$ and second with center at $(0,0, 3)$ and radius $\sqrt{13}$.I am able to do it for Cartesian and cylindrical systems:

$$ \int_{-3}^{3}\int_{-\sqrt{9-x^2}}^{\sqrt{9-x^2}}\int_{3-\sqrt{13-x^2-y^2}}^{-3+\sqrt{25-x^2-y^2}} \, dz\,dy\,dx, $$

Update: as it was pointed out by Ross Millikan, cylindrical version should looks like this: $$ \int_{0}^{2\pi}\int_{3-\sqrt{13}}^{1}\int_{0}^{\sqrt{13-(z-3)^2}}r \, dz\,dr\,d\varphi + \int_{0}^{2\pi}\int_{1}^{2}\int_{0}^{\sqrt{25-(z+3)^2}}r \, dz\,dr\,d\varphi. $$

However, I can not handle spherical case. Please help me to understand it. Please show me how to make substitution. What I need is understanding how to solve this problem, since I need to solve more than problem of this type.

Thanks a lot for your help!

Update:

Now I am stuck with understanding the first term of spherical part. My attempt:

$$ \int_{0}^{2\pi}\int_{0}^{3}\int_{\pi}^{\arctan\frac{r}{3-\sqrt{13-r^2}}}r^2 \cos \psi \, d \psi \,dr\, d \varphi \, . $$ But numerically it is different from first cylindrical term.

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Neither of your integrals is correct. You are integrating over the intersections of two balls. Spheres are the boundary of the balls. You need to find the $z$ coordinate where the spheres intersect, call it $z'$, then integrate over the top ball up to that $z$ position and integrate over the bottom ball above it. The $\varphi$ integral should be $0$ to $2\pi$ as you have it. The lowest point of the top ball is at $z=3-\sqrt {13}$ and the highest point of the bottom ball is at $z=2$. This gives $$\int_0^{2\pi}\int_{3-\sqrt{13}}^{z'}\int_0^{\sqrt{13-(z-3)^2}}rdr\ dz\ d\varphi$$ plus another term from $z'$ to $2$ in $z$