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Identity involving an improper integral (with geometric application)

Is it (for some reason) true that $\lim_{c\to 0^+}\int_c^{\pi/2}\frac{c}{t}\sqrt\frac{1+t^2}{t^2-c^2}dt=\frac{\pi}{2}$? Numerical evidence (from Mathematica): when $c=1/5$, the integral is $\...
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evaluating an integral related to the volume of Hessenberg orthogonal matrices

Consider the following integral, $$ {1 \over 4\pi^{2}}\int_{0}^{2\pi}\int_{0}^{2\pi} \sqrt{\, 9 -\sin^{2}\left(\theta_{1} \over 2\right) \sin^{2}\left(\theta_{2} \over 2\right)\,} \,{\rm d}...