Based on our definition of acceleration as the rate of change of the velocity we can calculate the change in velocity during a time interval as the acceleration multiplied by the length of the time in...Based on our definition of acceleration as the rate of change of the velocity we can calculate the change in velocity during a time interval as the acceleration multiplied by the length of the time interval: Using the definition of velocity as the rate of change of position we can calculate the change in position during a time interval as the average velocity during the interval multiplied by the length of the time interval.