Explain how you could thaw out a frozen water pipe by wrapping a coil carrying an alternating current around it. Does it matter whether or not the pipe is a conductor? Explain.

A conductor is an object or material that allows a charge to flow in one or more directions. Metal materials are common electrical conductors.

A frozen pipe can be thawed with a coil by passing high AC through it.

Because of the potential difference, the charge carriers begin to move and collide with the atoms inside the coil, causing it to vibrate more intensely and, as a result, heat up.

It makes a difference whether the pipe you want to thaw is a conductor or not. When a coil is wrapped around a conductor, its inductance increases dramatically, resulting in higher emf.

Because insulating materials do not conduct electricity as well as metal or copper pipes, this would not be an efficient method of thawing the pipe.