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They have specific energy levels, not places. 

The probability density function describes the probability of finding an electron, with a given energy

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12 hours ago, Achilles said:

Electrons have specific places where they can be in an atom. If so how does that fit in with probability density function?

They can be almost anywhere. There are places they are unlikely to be, and places they are likely to be (places often meaning "some distance r from the nucleus"), which is described by the probability density function.

The Bohr model limits them to having circular orbits, which is wrong. Although the hydrogen atom Bohr radius is the most probably distance from the nucleus to find an electron.

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