Derivative of inner product (taking limit inside)

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For each $x \in [a,b]$ let $A_x: H \to H$ be an operator on a Hilbert space.

The inner product $(A_xu,v)_{H}$ can be thought of as a function from $[a,b] \to \mathbb{R}.$ I want to say that $(A_xu,v)_{H}$ is differentiable in the classical sense $$\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{(A_{x+h}u,v)_{H}-(A_xu,v)_{H}}{h}=\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{(A_{x+h}u-A_xu,v)_{H}}{h}=(\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{A_{x+h}u-A_xu}{h},v)_{H}=0$$

Does it make sense to write the above? In what sense then is the limit on the RHS (the one inside the inner product) taken??

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Here is an example to show that the existence of $$ \lim_{h \to 0}\frac{(A_{x+h}u - A_xu,v)_{H}}{h}$$ for all $u,v$ does not imply the existence of $$\lim_{h \to 0}\frac{A_{x+h}u-A_xu}{h}$$

The space $H$ will be $L^2[-1,1]$. Let $A_x=0$ for $x\le 0$, and $A_x f(t)=x \exp ( it/{x}) f(t)$ for $x>0$. For any $u,v \in H$ we have $$ \lim_{h \to 0}\frac{(A_{ h}u - A_0 u,v)_{H}}{h} = \lim_{h \to 0} \int_{-1}^1 \exp ( it/{h}) u(t)v(t)\,dt =0 $$ by the Riemann-Lebesgue lemma. On the other hand, $$ \frac{ A_{ h}u-A_0 u }{h }(t) = \exp ( it/{h}) u(t) $$ is a unimodular multiple of $u$, so it does not converge to $0$ (nor to anything else) as $h\to 0$, unless $u=0$.

Recommended reading: Weak operator topology.