Past exam of the mathematics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge / 2025 / Paper 2 / 7 / Solution

Use spherical coordinates $x=s\sin \theta \cos \varphi$, $y=s\sin \theta \sin \varphi$, $z=s\cos \theta$. The density becomes ${\rho }_{0}s\sin \theta$, and the Jacobian determinant supplies $dV=s^2\sin \theta dsd\theta d\varphi$. Therefore the mass is the volume integralUsing ${\sin }^2\theta =(1-\cos 2\theta )/2$, the three integrals are $2\pi$, $\pi /2$ and $1/4$. Hence