Abstract
Abstract We present linear macroscopic dynamic equations for nematic liquid crystalline side-chain polymers. The visco-elastic degree of freedom of the polymeric backbone is taken into account by a strain field, which relaxes on a long but finite time scale. Besides the usual director field to describe the nematic ordering of the side-chains we also keep the nematic order parameter modulus as a variable, in order to describe the intrinsic connection of the polymeric and nematic aspects in nematic side-chain polymers. We discuss two experiments where our concept can be tested. PACS: 61.41. + e, 61.30.-v, 05.70.Ln
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