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It's experimentally confirmed that the plane of polarization changes when applying a magnetic field, and the Verdet constants obtained from three different methods are consistent with each other with their uncertainties. The weighted average of our three results is $20.83\frac{radians}{Tm}$, and the value quoted by TeachSpin for SF57 glass is $23\frac{radians}{Tm}$, $23\frac{radians}{Tm}$ \cite{TeachSpin},  which is close to our value but not quite. This does not mean our value is wrong since TeachSpin manual uses a different wavelength ($650$nm). The Verdet constant is wavelength dependent, as mentioned previously, so we think our values are correct because we did see a change of polarization and our values agree with each other within uncertainty.