A napkin-holder is formed by boring a cylindrical hole, of length \(2h\), through a wooden sphere of radius \(a\), where \(a\) is a fixed constant. The axis of the hole passes through the centre \(O\) of the sphere. The diagram shows a cross-section through \(O\), with \(x\)- and \(y\)-axes taken parallel and perpendicular to the axis of the hole respectively.

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