Consider two balls (solid spheres) in , with radius and respectively. Suppose that the distance between the centers of the two balls is . Please find the volume of the intersection of the two balls.
Illustration:
[X, Y, Z] = sphere(36);
r1 = 1;
r2 = 0.8;
c2 = [0.6 -0.8 0];
surf(X * r1, Y * r1, Z * r1)
hold on
surf(X * r2 + c2(1), Y * r2 + c2(2), Z * r2 + c2(3))
hold off
axis equal
Solve

Solution Stats

39 Solutions

15 Solvers

Last Solution submitted on Aug 29, 2026

Last 200 Solutions

Problem Comments

Solution Comments

Show comments

Problem Recent Solvers15

Chris Cleveland George Berken Matthew Jennings Lorenzo

Suggested Problems

More from this Author20

Problem Tags

Community Treasure Hunt

Find the treasures in MATLAB Central and discover how the community can help you!

Start Hunting!