Sailing Into Cosmic Destinations: The Big Book. Notes On The Mechanics And Thermodynamics Of Novel Relativistic Sail Space Craft. Volume 4.

This book is the fourth volume of a continuing series.

The content includes a formulaic presentation of novel combinations of propulsion modes for a single sail-type spacecraft.

More specifically, the spacecraft contemplated herein would collect mass and energy resources from the background medium of space-time. Such craft could in theory enable ship-frame runaway acceleration.

Numerous degrees of oscillatory motion of the spacecraft active surfaces are modeled as velocity compositions. The mathematics is straight-forward but also complicated.