How does the electron cloud model of the atom represent the location of electrons in atoms?
It is a good way of physically representing the different wavelengths and strengths of individual electrons as they move around the nucleus of an atom. According to wikipedia: “Electron cloud is a term used, if not originally coined, by the Nobel Prize laureate and acclaimed educator Richard Feynman in The Feynman Lectures on Physics for discussing “exactly what is an electron?”. This intuitive model provides a simplified way of visualizing an electron as a solution of the Schrödinger equation. In the electron cloud analogy, the probability density of an electron, or wavefunction, is described as a small cloud moving around the atomic or molecular nucleus, with the opacity of the cloud proportional to the probability density.” Therefore, it represents the probability spectrum of individual electrons at all given times and states, hence a cloud model. The greater probability that an electron will take up a certain space around the nucleus, the denser the cloud will be represented in the
