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The Quantum-Mechanical Model of the Atom

• The allowed wave-like motion of the electron leads to an atom  with certain fixed energy states much like Bohr assumed.

• The electron’s exact location cannot be determined.

• Solutions of Schrödinger’s wave equation are functions, _, that  describe atomic orbitals.

• Each _ describes a fixed-energy state the electron can occupy and  _2 gives the probability of finding it in a given 3-dimensional space.

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