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What is the volume of the solid formed by rotating this right angled triangle about the hypotenuse?

Right angled triangle of sides 3,4 and 5 units

Can you generalise this for any right angled triangle with sides of length $a$, $b$ and $c$, where $b$ is the hypotenuse?