Put . The gradient components are
A stationary point requires both components to vanish. If , then ; the second component subsequently forces , giving . If , either or, writing ,
Only is nonnegative. Thus there are five stationary points, with values
The cases and exhaust the first partial derivative equation, so no other stationary points have been lost by division.
The volume element is the absolute Jacobian determinant times the coordinate differentials. In the Cartesian coordinate system, cylindrical coordinates and spherical coordinates , respectively,
Here is distance from the origin, is the polar angle from the positive axis, and is the azimuthal angle. The spherical coordinates convention fixes which angle enters the sine factor.
Write . Since , their intersection is . Therefore the definition of conditional probability gives
The positive-probability condition is necessary: if , this elementary definition of conditional probability does not assign a value.

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