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A major problem with Bohr's model was that it treated electrons as particles that existed in precisely-defined orbits.
The quantum mechanical model of atoms describes the three-dimensional position of the electron in a probabilistic manner according to a mathematical function called a wavefunction, often denoted as ψ. Atomic wavefunctions are also called orbitals.
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