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I have to use a LM384 amp circuit (shown below) for a school project and need to explain how it works.

I've read the LM384 datasheet,and thus have a guess about some components but others remain a mystery.

Vin potentiometer is only a voltage divider to adjust input voltage
.1uF capacitor (above) is a decoupling capacitor to avoid noise in the power supply
5uF capacitor has the same purpose
RC branch + 500uF capacitor : That is the question. I don't really get the purpose of this.

Is the 500uF capacitor combined with 8 Ohm load just making a high pass filter with a cutting frequency of 1/(2*piRC) = 40 Hz ? Then what would be the point of this parallel RC branch?

Any help appreciated, thanks a lot!