How to compute the cross product of two given vectors using NumPy?

Let’s see the program to compute the cross product of two given vectors using NumPy. For finding the cross product of two given vectors we are using numpy.cross() function of NumPy library.

Syntax: numpy.cross(a, b, axisa=-1, axisb=-1, axisc=-1, axis=None)[

Return: cross product of two (arrays of) vectors.

Let’s see the examples:

Example 1: Cross product of 1d-arrays.

Python3

# import library
import numpy as np

# declare vectors
x = [1, 2]
y = [3, 4]

# find cross product of
# two given vectors
result = np.cross(x, y)

# show the result
print(result)

Output:

-2

Example 2: Cross product of 2d-arrays.

Python3

# import library
import numpy as np

# declare vectors
x = [[1, 2], [3, 4]]
y = [[5, 6], [7, 8]]

# find cross product of
# two given vectors
result = np.cross(x, y)

# show the result
print(result)

Output:

[-4 -4]

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